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Um, I’m over here, if you’re looking for me!

June 9, 2025 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

I am writing more often on Substack these days. You can go there to read those things (there’s a gradually-growing collection of stuff at our Substack, Write Well & Publish Wisely), or you could download the Substack app to your phone and read our stuff there as a Substack native. Or you could just subscribe […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: academic writing, Creativity, fiction writing, indie publishing, marketing, nonfiction, self-publishing

Building Credibility in Nonfiction

November 13, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

When a reader is simply told to believe something, rather than shown evidence, they will be less willing to accept it. The reader’s trust, if they extend it to you, will be thin and brittle if it is only based on your own plain claims about yourself. Even in nonfiction, the old fiction author’s adage […]

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Tagged With: nonfiction, ShowDontTell, writing craft