How to Sell Your Nonfiction Work

WRITING X 424.5E

Find out how to become a professional nonfiction writer in this career-focused course for beginning writers.

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What you can learn.

  • Discover where to get ideas for articles and essays
  • Shape ideas into marketable features
  • Learn to write successful query letters
  • Explore research methods and interviewing techniques

About this course:

This course is designed to teach beginning writers basic writing and marketing skills to jump-start a career in nonfiction writing. You discover where to get ideas, how to shape them into marketable feature stories, and how to write query letters that sell. You also study research methods and interviewing techniques. Finally, you become familiar with the business and legal aspects of nonfiction writing.

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