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How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $13.44 Average Rating:   |
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What does it take to write a non-fiction book in 60 days? It takes an idea. How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days spells out in detail the process required to move from your idea to a solid first draft of your book - in 60 days... |
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Self-Publishing for Profit!: Start Your Own Home-Based Publishing Company and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book with CreateSpace and Amazon (Volume 1) List Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $15.94 Average Rating:  |
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"A fine book for self-publishers set to take advantage of today's best entry to self- publishing." Aaron Shepard, author of Aiming at Amazon.This book cuts through all the hype that surrounds the publishing industry... |
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This important book introduces young children to things they can do to stay healthy and encourages behaviors experts have identified as key to children's health: active play, eating right, washing hands, drinking water, getting enough sleep, and spending time with loved ones... |
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Mini-Lessons for Teaching About Nonfiction: Teacher-Tested Lessons With Research-Based Strategies That Introduce Key Nonfiction Features and Build Comprehension (Best Practices in Action) List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $11.21 Average Rating:  |
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Three seasoned teachers share ways to teach early learners to read and write informational texts. Their step-by-step mini-lessons demonstrate how to help children distinguish between fiction and nonfiction, build background knowledge and vocabulary, and become familiar with captions, diagrams, maps, and more... |
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The Wealthy Author: The Fast Profit Method For Writing, Publishing & Selling Your Non-Fiction Book List Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $15.88 Average Rating: |
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Essential Tools, Tips, Checklists & Tests To Help You Make A Fulltime Income As A Non-Fiction Author The publishing game is changing. The playing field has been flattened. There has never been a better time to be a non-fiction author ... |
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Rock has dominated radio, TV, movies, and even the Internet in our media-savvy lives, but its impact on the literary world has often been overlooked. This collection features today's finest writers, including Sherman Alexie, Madison Smartt Bell, T... |
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Story Reader brings children’s favorite stories to life. Insert the cartridge and place the book into the Story Reader console, and turn the pages to read along. A narrator reads the book as each page is turned, while Story Reader adds sound effects and music... |
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of the breakthrough album by Bruce Springsteen Born to Run. Columbia Records to re-release celebrates the album with lots of audio and video candy, including material of interviews with Bruce to discuss the development of this seminal work. I 'm a fan, you can imagine I've eaten here that Thanksgiving has come early!
What is striking home for me is Hearing about how Springsteen backs were really against the wall while he was creating this album. The label is planning to abandon he knew he had to do something. When people I asked, "How do I know if my work is good enough?" Springsteen because I think he probably did not ask when I tried to find something to write. The answer could be "no" if you asked someone his record company. He had to work and teach himself how to know if their work was good enough. That's what I learned.
1.) Learning from the Great
In the summer of 1974 Springsteen might bemoan the fact that their first two albums have not been crowned success and has lived in a small house in New Jersey, while the country was in the midst of a severe economic depression. But he was not. He focused on his compositions. "I had a turntable next to my bed," writes in his book, Songs. "The night I sit and listen to the album of Roy Orbison, the Ronettes, The Beach Boys, and other great artists of the 60s. These are the documents which I Total Depth missed the first time. But now they appreciate his art and power. "Note that it is not saying" No way I can create songs like that! "Instead, it intended" What can I add to the conversation? "It was inspired and has studied both.
2.) Aspire to be the Great Yourself
In an interview in Born to Run, Springsteen said he knew that his case has been undertaken about to leave. He added: "I knew I had to write something great." Springsteen did not write something great. It could have folded his tent and said, "not like me, only I will remain in Asbury Park and play where people like me and that's all. "But he did not made. Has also asked if it was not good enough. Simply challenged him to go beyond itself - to be great. Ask yourself: What you write here is a challenge to be great? What would - you need to start thinking this way?
3.) Found the confidence in the ears of votes
Yes, it is difficult to know your account if you're on the right track with your writing. It is now that you hire your own circle of readers whose eyes and ears of your trust. Jon Landau is one of those pairs confidence Springsteen's ear. They became friends during the writing of Born to Run, Bruce often sent Jon, then a Boston music critic, the recording of the work as increased. When work stalled, Landau is the one who came and helped put together everything Bruce. Who can be the ears and eyes for you? Try keep the small circle. If you have too many opinions that poured into their work may cloud his creative standpoint.
4.) Try something different
Most of the songs on Born to Run "were written on the piano - is a guy known for his strident Fender. But Springsteen Writes the piano, gave new ideas and new opportunities for exploration. It also gave the album an incredible atmosphere emotional and intimate that I find intoxicating. What can you do differently that might inspire a leap to a higher level? Set your story in 1905 instead of 2005? Write point of view the opposite sex? Be a little creative with his non-fiction? Take a chance. No effort is ever wasted, even if you write bad - You can still learn what you did wrong.
5.) Think Local, Global Write
One of the changes Springsteen Born to Run is that the characters in his songs were "less eccentric and less local" than his previous albums. People Born to Run "could be any that and everyone, "he said." If you close the door on the screen to "Thunder Road" is not necessarily the coast of New More jersey. You can be anywhere in America. "And TRUE. Millions of people associated with - and bought - Born to Run. He sought the same type of connection to my novel. Although the family everything they need for African-American I've had readers tell me how all races are seen in one or more of the characters and how they relate mainly to family issues in the book. Touching people in this way is the key to developing a attentive audience. How to open their work to a wider audience while remaining true to its history?
If you have any doubts, consider this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "What course you choose, there is always someone to tell you you're wrong. There are always difficulties instruments derivatives suggest that your critics are right. To plot a course and follow it to an end ... takes courage. "Be brave for you and your writing. Born to Run Your own can hope to escape.
© 2005 Scott Sophfronia
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Inspirational book for young African American girls?
Hi I'm curious to know if anyone knows a book or an African girl American youth living in urban society today can read this would be of little help insipre likely to rise above their environment? I saw a lot of literature for men there, but little girls and if I touched on things that were obsolete, I mean with all due respect to people like Maya Angelou's stories do not meet the new challenges faced by young women. So I was curious whether anyone knew of a book, ficitonal or fiction, to be able to help. Non-fiction of course, would be great, but I think that few can be anyone.
Try something Toni Morrison and Bell Hooks
Cheryl Lacey Donovan accepts African American Literary Award for Non-Fiction