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Ashbee
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Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects
      19/07/2008 12:02

I listened to the american writer, Elizabeth Berg, being interviewed yesterday and she said she had only been a nurse before she decided to try her hand at writing. She started writing essays as she claims it the easiest way to get published (might be in the US) - is it over here?

And issi, the book I mentioned earlier says that the biggest non-fiction 'rule' you should aim to break is the one that says 'write what you know'. Learn to discover ideas (even recycle ideas from other people) and research them - expertise not needed, just an ability to gather a few facts and write them up in an interesting way...Ok, that might be a bit simplistic but you get my meaning...

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* FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects Ashbee 17/07/2008 20:07
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects Chickadee   17/07/2008 22:24
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects Ashbee   18/07/2008 08:26
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects aggipanthus   18/07/2008 09:09
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects issi   18/07/2008 22:11
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects Ashbee   19/07/2008 08:45
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects aggipanthus   19/07/2008 09:24
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects Ashbee   19/07/2008 12:02
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects issi   20/07/2008 14:14
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects Chickadee   26/07/2008 21:59
. * * Re: FOR WRITERS- non fiction subjects Ashbee   26/07/2008 22:16

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