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The wide, wide world of non-fiction - Where your book might fit
- Writing from personal experience
- Short non-fiction
- Spin-offs from best-selling non-fiction
| Collaborating, ghost writing and self-publishing - Should you look at co-writing?
- The pros and cons of working with other Writers
- Distributing your book
- Promoting and marketing your self-published book
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Developing your ideas - Where to find ideas
- Developing your idea
- Understanding your strengths and limitations
- What your readers need and expect
| Research and interviews - Approaches to research
- Copyright and plagiarism
- What your readers need to know
- How to conduct an interview; arranging the interview, preparation, the interview, reconstructing the interview
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Planning your book - From idea to outline
- How reader-friendly is your writing?
- Taking advantage of ideas
- Research
| Editing and polishing your work - Getting distance from your manuscript
- Getting feedback
- Tips on polishing your work
- From the first run through to the final draft
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Anecdotes and quizzes - How to write a good anecdote
- Hints on using fiction techniques
- The structure of a quiz
- Using case studies
| Selling your work: query letters, proposals, copywriting tricks - Press releases
- What Editors want
- How knowledge of copywriting techniques will help you
- Words that sell
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Writing articles - The general structure of an article
- Writing a query letter to a magazine Editor
- Using the fiction Writer's techniques
- How to convert chapters of your book into articles
| Where to from here? - Writing as a business
- Look ahead and budget to grow
- Self-promotion and publicity
- Handling the media
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Writing for the Internet - Why writers need the Internet
- Why readers like the Internet
- Writing articles for the Internet
- Writing e-zines
| The youth market - Writing non-fiction for children and teenagers
- Re-casting your material for youth
- Writing non-fiction for children's magazines
- How other Authors have done it
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