I laugh when people say writing nonfiction is
easier than fiction.
Nonfiction in general I think is
easier than fiction.
Nonfiction writers have it a little bit
easier than fiction writers.
Not exact matches
It's much
easier for snails to develop thin waists n grow hips, butts n busts n learn to twerk
than for Wenger and the board to listen to the fans I don't even waste my brain cells trying to imagine such an impossible situation n I advice all of you to shun such thoughts of pure
fiction n immense madness
Writing political
fiction is, like any
fiction,
easier than writing fact; a disclaimer in the front...
One of the reasons we seem to be trapped in the pages of
fiction — in which a 200 - 1 outsider has become leader of HM Opposition, appointing a Shadow Chancellor who has praised the IRA's «armed struggle» and cheerfully advocates the overthrow of capitalism, and a minister for agriculture who is against the farming of animals — is that the ascent of Jeremy Corbyn is
easier to explain in retrospect
than it was to see coming.
What with all the Twilighting going on lately, we should be thankful that once in a while a film like
Easy A comes along: a film that honestly and unwaveringly addresses what it means to be a teenage girl in this image laden, information drenched age, rather
than resorting to archaic romance
fiction techniques with passive heroines who do nothing but wait for inherently violent men to make all the hard decisions.
As luck would have it, the first car we set off in from our starting point in Los Angeles, CA — the very 1950s, very Pulp
Fiction Mel's Diner on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood — happened to have the aforementioned EcoBoost four - cylinder engine, only with a slight twist; it also had the Performance Package, a $ 3,000 option that adds special 19 - inch black wheels (making it
easier to identify from the outside
than a similarly - equipped model from last year), bigger rear sway bars, special chassis tuning, a 3.55 rear axle ratio, heavy duty front springs and a larger radiator.
The other awesome thing about nonfiction eBooks is that they're actually much
easier to sell
than fiction, and you can make more money overall, which can then allow you to fund your
fiction writing efforts.
In our experience, it's much
easier to write about facts
than fiction.
I know some writers in [young adult
fiction] who have had a much
easier time continuing their series in digital
than getting a print contract for the fourth or fifth book.»
It was really
easy for me to figure out what non-
fiction titles I wanted — because I'm going to be doing more world building
than I usually do, I want to be well - grounded in military history, among other things — but figuring out what
fiction titles I wanted to read was harder.
Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA
fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be
easier for a
fiction author
than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.
So many newcomers to this industry mistakenly believe that writing
fiction is much
easier to write
than non-
fiction.
Non-
fiction is much
easier to write
than fiction because nonfiction books contain similar components.
Of the dramatic plot twists that routinely occur in suspense
fiction, one character in Harriet Lane's Her complains that they are «unsatisfying... nothing like life, which — it seems to me — turns less on shocks or theatrics
than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings or disappointments, the things that it's
easy to overlook.»
Walter Mosley is the author of more
than twenty books for adults, including the Fearless Jones series (3 books) and
Easy Rawlins series (10 books), he has also published a handful of non
fiction titles, a collection of stories and has contributed to other collections.
That said, book marketing for non-
fiction is generally
easier than book marketing for
fiction.
Showing your story to your readers instead of telling it is a cardinal rule in
fiction writing, yet much
easier said
than done.
Note, I write nonfiction so it is
easier for me to target likely readers
than if I wrote
fiction.
It's perhaps
easier to have a Christian romance novel
than a Christian fantasy novel (JRR Tolkien was a Christian, but this doesn't make Lord of the Rings Christian
fiction.
It's much
easier to make an «image» for an algebra workbook, for example,
than for a science
fiction novel, and the image (just an equation, in my case) is far less important for the algebra workbook.
Luckily, it should impact
fiction less
than nonfiction, and probably by a wide margin because it's not as
easy to farm content.
Whether
fiction or nonfiction, it's much
easier to market a series of books, rather
than just a single title.
The author of more
than three dozen
fiction and nonfiction books, Mosley gained famed through his
Easy Rawlins mysteries, including «Devil in a Blue Dress,» which was made into a motion picture starring Denzel Washington.
He is a prolific writer of more
than 40 books — ranging from crime novels to literary
fiction — and is widely recognized for his Ezekiel «
Easy» Rawlins detective series based in Watts, which includes the first book in the series «Devil in the Blue Dress,» as well as «Little Scarlet.»