Table of Contents

A Writer's Guide to NonfictionAcknowledgments
Introduction
North: Getting Your Bearings
1. What Do I Want to Say?
2. Who Are My Readers?
3. What Form Can My Writing Take?
4. How Can I Refine My Idea?
5. How Do I Begin?
6. How Do I Develop the Middle?
7. How Can I End Well?
8. Writing About People
9. Writing About Ideas
10. Writing About Things
11. Writing About Places

South: Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
12. Troubleshooting and Problem Solving

East: Your Rising Star
13. Learning How to Market

West: Refining Your Vision
14. Exploring New Horizons

Index
ABout the Author

About the Author

Elizabeth Lyon, a regular speaker at writing conferences and retreats nationwide, has been a contributor to Writer's Digest and is a mentor, editor, and teacher for many writers. The author of Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write and The Sell Your Novel Toolkit, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.