Nonfiction

There are plenty of book publishers looking for compelling life stories. A life story can lead not only to a run as a successful hardback book, it can go into an extended, even more successful run...

There are many reasons for keeping a journal. Some people do it to keep a record of events that occur in their lives so they can look back on them later. Others do it because they plan to write a...

The autobiography is a challenging but rewarding genre of personal writing. Drawing on one's own experiences for writing inspiration can be a little scary. Many prospective autobiographers make...

Journals are typically magazines that fall into the academic realm and are of a more serious nature. The articles in these types of journals cover subject matter related to the field the journal...

Typically a journal response consists of the writer expressing feelings about a quote somebody once said or a written passage recently read. Because the subjects stimulating the writer are so...

Teen Vogue is one of the most popular teen magazines in the publishing industry, second only to Seventeen Magazine. While it employs staff writers, freelance writers can pitch their story ideas...

Many writers struggle with an inner writing critic. This is otherwise known as the little sound in the back of your head that crops up when you are writing and gives you biased information not...

Unlike an autiobiography, which is written in first person, a biography is written in third person narrative. The writer must choose a person to become the subject of his biography. Usually, a...

The word bibliography comes from the Greek word "bibliographia" which translates to "book writing." In modern-day context, the bibliography is a list of books, periodicals, and...

Bet you didn’t know you had to be a lifetime student of human behavior in order to be a writer of any ability, did you? Well, you do, so get used to it. If you’re a writer of any stripe, that’s...