Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer - (A Rothman Writing Short) by Rothman (Paperback)

About the Book

Learn to write nonfiction fast and well. Not fast for speed's sake, but that helps your readers see why your words matter.

Book Synopsis

Free your inner nonfiction writer as you learn to write fast and well.

Do you want to write nonfiction better and faster? But when you try to write, you feel stuck, or you don't like what you wrote, or you're not sure why anyone would want to read your words.

You can enjoy writing, especially when you integrate thinking and learning as you write. And, when you wait to edit until the end, you can write faster. Learn how to educate, influence, and entertain people with your writing.

You'll learn how to:

• Separate writing, which includes thinking and learning, from editing.
• Focus on your readers, so you write what they need to know.
• Face your writing fears.
• Find your author voice, so you sound like you.
• Be ready to write, so you never have to face a blank page.
• Empathize with your readers to write about what matters to them.
• How to edit just enough.
• Evolve your writing system.

And more.

Buy this book and learn how to write nonfiction to educate, influence, and entertain.

Review Quotes

"Johanna distilled her many years of non-fiction writing into this guidebook. It summarizes starting points for anyone's writing journey. I even picked up handy tips from this book and I co-wrote a book with her. I look forward to having this reference on the shelf near my writing desk." -Mark Kilby, coauthor of From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams and writer/editor at https: //www.markkilby.com/

"Johanna offers a system for writing that lets you explore what you think and feel about your subject, and pull out deep insights that you may not even have known you have. The best part: it's fast to learn, and it will make you a faster and better writer. -Jim Grey, software engineering leader and writer at midnightstarpress.com