Posts Tagged ‘structuring nonfiction’
DO YOU HAVE HEADERS IN YOUR NONFICTION MANUSCRIPT?
If you’re writing a nonfiction book other than a memoir, you’ll need to break up your text with headers. Good headers are like signs on the highway that reassure you that you’re going in the right direction (“Chicago/O’Hare”), orient you (“Chicago 45 milesj”), and tell you when you need to switch roads (“Exit for Dundee…
Read MoreTHE WORD ON WORD COUNT AND LENGTH
How do you determine word count and length for a book and its chapters? First, study other successful (key word: successful!) books in your genre to discover what length they are. For example, a typical self-help book is between 60,000 and 80,000 words
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