I'm looking ahead to the August contest - writing a nonfiction piece about the "art of writing."
What is your best advice about writing a good nonfiction piece?
What is your best advice about writing a good nonfiction piece?
How do you write good nonfiction?
- Thread starter Louanne Learning
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The usual advice is to make it personal. Relate to the reader.
Zatamon
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Feel passionate about the subject. That's the biggest compliment from readers about my Physics book - "his passion on the topic shines through every word". Readers don't just want to learn about a topic, they want an emotional connection to it. You have to make them feel that the time spent reading is going to enrich their life.
I think this is vital.
So, we have established that an emotional connection is needed in both fiction and nonfiction.
What other aspects of writing fiction apply to nonfiction?
What other aspects of writing fiction apply to nonfiction?
