Course Description

"20 Years in The Making, I'm Proud to Present Your Ultimate Guide to Creating and Selling Nonfiction Content For The Marketplace!"

Please read this important message from your personal tutor, Rob Parnell:

Dear Fellow Writer,

Welcome to my latest resource - this one specifically designed to propel your nonfiction writing career, or at least get you started on the right path. It's my belief this topic is poorly served by most educational bodies and that this course should be seen as a sincere attempt to rectify this situation.

I believe this is important because a good grasp of nonfiction writing is actually fundamental to ALL writing.

So, what does nonfiction writing cover?

Biography, creative nonfiction, history, self-help, travel, how-to, memoir, health, diet, lifestyle, psychology, religious, political, news, scandal, internet content, copywriting, blogging, and a whole host of fact, reportage, and opinion based text. 

As you can probably tell, nonfiction pretty much covers everything that is NOT fiction.

So why is this area of writing so badly taught? 

My guess is because we mostly take it for granted. Our education system assumes we all already know how to do it. Plus, we all READ nonfiction constantly, probably without even being aware that's what we're doing.

Nonfiction is like the air we breathe. ALWAYS AROUND US but hard to pin down unless we examine it closely.

And that's what this course is: a thorough examination of the genre that gives you a specific gameplan to enable you to compete in this highly lucrative market.

This may surprise you but nonfiction OUTSELLS fiction all of the time, year on year, always has, probably always will.

To prove it to yourself just put a how-to book on Amazon and watch it OUTSELL your novel by (usually) a factor of ten to one. Plus, look at mainstream publisher guidelines. You'll see a tepid hesitance at the idea of receiving your new fiction manuscript compared to an enthusiastic interest in whatever you might want to submit in the nonfiction department.

Even better, publishers don't even want you to write the whole MS straightaway. You can submit them nonfiction book proposals before they commission you to write them! Now that's wonderful.

What's in this extraordinary new course?

So much actually - it might take your breath away!

THIRTY FIVE modules - including over three hours of video content - to guide you through the genre, from idea creation to publication.

Discover:

* Why nonfiction is the best, the mother of all genres!

* How to make big cash and get famous writing books and speaking out.

* How to gain the right mindset to kill the competition

* How to easily come up with the right Ideas

* How to stay fully motivated to write every day

* How to summon inspiration on demand

* How to explore and exploit your passion

* How to understand the current nonfiction zeitgeist

* Learn the most effective way to open a book chapter

*  Understand that "proving a point" is crucial to your nonfiction writing success

* How to pitch nonfiction ideas to publishers, agents and others (also discover the power of the "elevator pitch")

* How to successfully navigate copyright issues

* Which of the various nonfiction genres is the most profitable

* How to write great self-help, then upscale to franchise your ideas

* How to conduct and benefit from interviews

* How to become the "go to" expert

* Understand the logic and popularity of modern nonfiction bestsellers

* How to use my nonfiction templates to speed up your writing time

* How to properly approach the writing of classic nonfiction

* How to improve you technique, tone and style

* The easy guide to fact checking

* The best way to approach editing

* The most effective way to use beta readers

* How to maximize you promotion efforts with NO money spent

* How to use Social Media properly

* How to develop your nonfiction writing career

And much more... ( that's just what I can remember off the top of my head!)

Also included are these BONUS ITEMS

1. A complete TEXT version of the course in PDF

2. Analysis of the Current Bestseller Genre (with examples)

3. Analysis of a New York Times List top fifteen bestsellers 

4. On Writing Well - the complete text of this classic from Harper Collins.

5. Plus more "secret" bonuses. 

Don't delay, get this deal while it's HOT
Join me in class!

Your Personal Instructor

Rob Parnell

Rob Parnell has been teaching online since 2002, specifically helping writers earn money from their passion. He is the proud founder of The Writing Academy, an online school dedicated to student success and authorial excellence.Rob has published over thirty number-one best-selling books on genre fiction authorship, freelance writing, motivation, productivity; getting rich, staying thin and healthy. When it comes to making a living from writing, composing music, and creating film projects, Rob is a man who knows what he's talking about! You'll enjoy his down-to-earth style and the feeling Rob somehow knows you like a friend! Rob has been writing since he was five years old. He writes every day without fail - it's a compulsion. His preferred genre is the thriller - sometimes with a supernatural edge - in which he writes short stories, novels, screenplays, and adult thrillers - including his Purge detective novels and the popular Sherlock Holmes: Zombie Slayer series. Also a musician and composer, an accomplished singer, media producer and budding movie maker, Rob is ecstatically happy to be married to Robyn Opie Parnell, his savior, and the popular best-selling children's author.They live miles from anywhere in their beautiful country farmhouse, its eleven acres tucked within inches of the stunning Flinders Ranges, with their beloved pets, Wally the dog and the cats: Jessie, and Iggy (because he's The Wild One.)

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • How Best To Use This Course

    • Where this course came from...

    • Why Write Nonfiction?

    • What Exactly Is Creative Nonfiction?

  • 2

    Introduction

    • Introduction To Nonfiction

  • 3

    Idea Creation

    • What Do Want To Write About?

    • How To Get Motivated to Write

    • Don't Wait For Inspiration!

    • What's Your Passion?

    • Drilling Down On Ideas

  • 4

    Understanding Context

    • What is Zeitgeist?

    • It's About Making a Point

    • Creating a Pitch

    • What's The Deal With Copyright?

    • Becoming The Expert

  • 5

    The Non Fiction Genres

    • Genres ONE

    • Genres TWO

    • Genres THREE

    • Writing Self-Help

    • Conducting Interviews

  • 6

    The Writing

    • The Writing Process

    • Using a Template

    • How To Start a Book

    • The Writing

    • Style, Tone and Technique ONE

    • Technique TWO

  • 7

    Editing Etc

    • Fact Checking

    • Editing

    • Using Beta Readers

  • 8

    Publication

    • Promotion ONE

    • Promotion TWO

    • Social Media & Advertising

    • Career Opportunities

    • Conclusion

  • 9

    Bonus Items

    • Nonfiction Bestsellers - A Study

    • New York Times List Analysis

    • How To Write Non-Fiction For Profit - the text version

    • On Writing Well - the 30th Anniversary Edition from Harper Collins

    • Turning Thoughts Into Books - Excerpt

    • Joel Orr's Book Program - Excerpt

Reviews

5 star rating

Welcome/Introduction

Marjorie Street

Much information, even in the introduction to the course. Looking forward to learning lots from the course itself! I have now completed the course and ha...

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Much information, even in the introduction to the course. Looking forward to learning lots from the course itself! I have now completed the course and have found much helpful information and will keep it as a resource as I continue to pursue a writing career. Thank you, Rob Parnell!

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Ideas about which to write

Patricia Fleck

Interesting way to come up with ideas. I wake up with a new book idea running thru my head and keep a notebook and pen beside the bed. Sometimes those idea...

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Interesting way to come up with ideas. I wake up with a new book idea running thru my head and keep a notebook and pen beside the bed. Sometimes those ideas are in the form of a dream, a poem, an outline. I can't get them written down fast enough because I'm afraid I'll lose them. If I come up with a title first, it restricts my writing and stifles the creativity. Other times, I can visualize a theme around a title. I don't think there's any certain time to have the title pop into your head. It could be in the middle of the writing!

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How to write great Nonfiction for profit

Ineke Kruger

Well, this is a lot of information. I am going to use the template idea. I also agree with Rob that when writing your first draft is important to just write ...

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Well, this is a lot of information. I am going to use the template idea. I also agree with Rob that when writing your first draft is important to just write everything that comes up while writing on the topic. Thanks a lot, I appreciate the slow and clear voice Rob is using to explain everything.

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Very Informative

Mary James

A strategic walking narrative to prepare the novice writer of the work ahead of him or her. Rob Parnell delivers in a clear and succinct way as well as offer...

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A strategic walking narrative to prepare the novice writer of the work ahead of him or her. Rob Parnell delivers in a clear and succinct way as well as offers .pdf files at the end for those who need to review the written text. As always, thanks Rob, I like your tutorials. M.James

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Five Stars

Sharoll J