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Ready, Set…Almost Go! Write Fast and on Point During WNFIN

Published on October 31, 2010 By Nina Amir

It’s October 31st, an auspicious date not because it’s Halloween but because it’s the day before Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) begins. Not only that, I know National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) starts tomorrow as well. Now some nonfiction writers choose to be NaNo Rebels and to write nonfiction there, producing 50,000 words in 30 [...]

Editing IS Marketing: Boning Up on First Impressions

Published on November 13, 2009 By ninaamir

Since we are on the topic of editing (see yesterday’s post), I thought we should follow that line of thinking into another area: marketing. This gives us another way to look at what we do when we edit our work or have professional editors help us polish our writing. To do this, I’ve asked Carolyn [...]

Editing for Word Count Improves Your Writing

Published on May 28, 2009 By ninaamir

I tend to be a fairly verbose writer. My husband actually calls me “The Queen of Verbosity.” Yes, I can write a lot in a short amount of time. I admit it. When I’m working on assignment, I often find that I have exceeded my 1, 500-word article requirement, for example, by at least double [...]