I write NON-FICTION therefore this may differ from some of your processes. 1. Put simply, I make a jotted outline of the subject I am writing...
I write because the books I want to read haven't been written yet. So I wrote them. That and sheer boredom and the need to find something...
Thanks Lifeline. Glad to be here.
A forum, first and foremost, needs to be active and regularly updated. A lot of forums these days are dead places, killed by Facebook. This seems...
I am a Technical Author in my first role. Very different from my 'other' live as an Historical Non-Fiction author, but great in one respect to be...
This depends; is your question specifically about researching family history (i.e. an unknown person who has never been written about before) or...
Well yes; I run a history page with 15,000 likes. It helps now, but I had to grow that organically and dedicate quite a lot of time making it a...
Even having my own website, even if nobody visits, motivates me. It stimulates me into believing my own worth as an author. Dress for the job you...
I use a HP Stream 11 inch laptop. Has next to no RAM, but for writing and internet surfing solely, it is magnificent. Its so light, its almost...
I use Grammarly, but as pointed out, it can be wrong. I use it primarily to 'highlight' what it thinks I've done wrong, and then I will reevaluate...
I went the opposite way; for years I had a blog where I posted on a myriad of subjects, history, sports, miscellaneous jibberish but it was all...
I strongly suggest setting up a website, even as a basic landing page. Wordpress is fantastic for those of us without the web design know-how, as...
Hello everybody, glad to have finally found a decent-looking writer's forum. My particular area of interest will be non-fiction, as I am a...
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