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Finding My Why

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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Writing a Nonfiction Big Idea Book

Nonfiction big idea books have a bunch of characteristics to them one characteristic is their part academic which means that there's backup with scientific proof and it doesn't have to be five million footnotes in your book but occasionally you have to refer to academic literature. The second thing is it has to have how to so it has to be extremely practical so you take this big idea then you unpack it so that step by step you give a prescriptive path for the reader to apply the big idea in their own life. And finally, because it's a big idea of work of nonfiction I always recommend that you open with the problem what is the problem and how did you come to realize the

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