nonfiction — Better Writer Blog — Live Your Literary Life

Live Your Literary Life

Art of G Cover II.jpg

Posts tagged nonfiction

Writer's Platform: Way Too Crowded

PlatformJames BuchananNovember 30, 2017author platform, writer platform, publishing, agents, fiction, nonfictionComment

Book Sales 2017

Platform, Guidance, Business of BooksJames BuchananNovember 27, 2017Best Books, 2017, Slate, fiction, nonfiction, marketing advice, book marketingComment

A Good Cafe & Creating Characters: An Exercise

Characterization, GuidanceJames BuchananJune 29, 2017characterization, exercise, fiction, nonfiction, writing is artComment

Ugh, A Storytelling System

Art, Guidance, Heart of WritingJames BuchananJanuary 20, 2017writing is art, bad advice, storyteloling system, storytelling system, fiction, nonfiction, the heart of writing, to be a writer, rip offsComment

Photo Books and Character Details

Characterization, Description, GuidanceJames BuchananJanuary 9, 2017photos, character, characterization, Vivian Maier, writing, fiction, nonfictionComment

Which Came First? The Agent or the Publisher?

Finding a Publisher, Finding an AgentJames BuchananApril 18, 2016publish your book, agents, publishers, breaking in as a writer, fiction, nonfictionComment

Laura Pope: Why I Write

Why I writeJames BuchananFebruary 22, 2016Laura Pope, why I write, fiction, nonfictionComment

Agents Can Be... Well... Painful to Deal With

Finding an Agent, My StuffJames BuchananFebruary 22, 2016Agents, rudeness, rejection, handle rejection, rely on intuition, fiction, nonfiction, writingComment

Great Opening Lines: Make a Big Promise

Guidance, Good Writing and Writers, Heart of WritingJames BuchananFebruary 4, 2016Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, great opening lines, novels, fiction, nonfictionComment

Lori Ferguson: Why I Write

Why I writeJames BuchananJanuary 29, 2016Lori Ferguson, why I write, fiction, nonfiction, freelance, ghostwriting Comment

K.M. Weiland: Why I Write

Why I writeJames BuchananJanuary 25, 2016why I write, fiction, nonfiction, K.M. Weiland, writers, authors, inspiration Comments

The Perfect Writing Space

Art, Heart of WritingJames BuchananJanuary 9, 2016writer office, simple office, easy writer office, inspiration, fiction, nonfictionComment

Wintertime Koselig (Coziness)

LifeJames BuchananJanuary 6, 2016winter, koselig, coziness, Norway, writing, fiction, nonfictionComment

Truth, Facts and Narrative Nonfiction

Guidance, Heart of WritingJames BuchananDecember 14, 2015fiction, nonfiction, Mary Karr, Aminatta Forna, Lillian RossComment

Revising for Show Don't Tell

Characterization, GuidanceJames BuchananNovember 25, 2015Revision, writing, fiction, nonfiction, narrative, narrative nonfiction, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, funny storyComment

Compulsion is Despair

CharacterizationJames BuchananAugust 10, 2015Geneen Roth, When Food is Love, despair, compulsion, fiction, nonfiction, character motivationComment

Neil Gaiman and Finding an Agent

Finding a Publisher, Finding an AgentJames BuchananMay 15, 2015Neil Gaiman, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, finding an agent, getting published, publishers, agents, writing, fiction, nocel, nonfictionComment

Max Richter Re-Imagines Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Music, ArtJames BuchananMay 7, 2015Max Richter, Netflix Chef's Table, writing, art, creativity, fiction, nonfiction Comments

Mary Karr on Character Transformation

Good Writing and Writers, Heart of WritingJames BuchananMay 1, 2015Mary Karr, memoir, storytelling, fiction, nonfiction, plot, character, protagonistComment

Learning from Writers Better than Me

Guidance, ArtJames BuchananApril 28, 2015Joan Didion, Paris Review, interviews, fiction, nonfiction, writing adviceComment