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Dream a little dream, read a little book, live a lot of life. If you don't know the parents-to-be all that well, you can still write a sweet message to their baby in a book. Whether it's a ...
While you don’t want it to write your book, AI can add efficiencies to some of your processes. For example, AI can help you research what else is out there on your topic so you can determine what you ...
If you're an aspiring writer, you know that you have to read all kinds of books in order to hone your technique, but sometimes it might seem as if every writing book you look at is tailored toward ...
If you take weekends off, that gives you 261 days of writing. A double-space page is about 250 words, so let’s lower the goal to 200 words a day. Over the year, that gives you 52,200 words of text.
The key to getting your book written, says Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter, isn’t talent or luck or inspiration. It’s the act of sitting down every day and writing.
Jami Attenberg, Roxane Gay, Alex Chee, and other novelists explain how to write a book. The first trick is: You have to write a 1000 words every day. The second trick is: You have to have fun.
The market section of the book proposal matters because it helps to answer the “why me” question — or, why should an editor give you thousands of dollars to write this book (trade contracts ...
There are a lot of reasons for a CEO or founder to write a book. It may not make you tons of money directly—the average nonfiction book sells less than 2,000 copies—but it can provide you with ...
Getting words onto a page can be a painful process. Authors of all abilities, help is within reach! By Judith Newman “Writing is easy,” the sportswriter Red Smith famously said. “I just open ...
Book reviews are important inputs into a wider system of academic publishing upon which the academic profession is symbiotically dependent, and in a previous career advice column I argued that all ...
It won’t help you write the book, but it may inform your planning process. If you decide to move forward with your business book project, do so with open eyes.