We all know someone who is sick and tired of their 9-to-5 job and would love to start a business or get into investing and earn a large income. “Sadly, so often they become a moth to flame, falling ...

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.

We've all seen the stats: a huge percentage of professionals say they want to write a book. But between client calls, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

I can’t tell you how many writers come to me believing they had a specific book to write and eventually learn that they were wrong—happily in the end.

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.