Write Articles and Essays to Boost Your Platform for Novels and Nonfiction
In a world where it can take years for a book to reach the market, essays and nonfiction articles help you stay connected with readers and build your platform between your books.
Whether you’re writing novels or nonfiction, publishing articles and essays in magazines, blogs, and other outlets keeps your voice visible while adding income and publication credits.
Writers across genres use this approach. George Saunders and Laura Lippman publish essays between novels, while Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Pollan use articles and essays to expand their reach. These pieces also offer the satisfaction of starting and finishing meaningful work in a shorter amount of time.
Essays and articles can extend your larger projects, helping you explore the ideas, themes, and experiences that shape your writing. They also strengthen your craft by sharpening clarity, structure, and voice while building a body of published work.
But how do you turn your ideas into articles and essays that appeal to readers and editors? How do you use shorter nonfiction to support your book projects?
In this dynamic OnDemand webinar, Polly Campbell shares practical, step-by-step strategies you can use right away to generate ideas, shape strong essays and articles, and place your work in front of readers and editors—building a platform that supports both fiction and nonfiction.
You Will Learn to:
- Use essays and articles to support and sell your book
- Generate article and essay ideas from your work in progress
- Identify nonfiction markets for your writing
- Structure clear, compelling service pieces and short reported essays
- Pitch your short nonfiction to editors and publications
Who Should Watch:
- Writers who want to hone their craft
- Writers who want to build and expand their platform for fiction and nonfiction work
- Writers who want to learn how to write and publish shorter pieces
- Writers who want to create additional revenue streams through their writing
- Writers who want to connect with editors, publications, and new audiences
Instructor:
Polly Campbell is the author of the award-winning You, Recharged: How to Beat Fatigue (Mostly), Amp Up Your Energy (Usually), and Enjoy Life Again, (Always), and three other books. She is also working on a novel.
She is the host of the Simply Write w/Polly Campbell podcast and writes the Simply Write column at SimplyWrite.substack.com, and the Simply Said podcast and companion Substack. She writes a blog for Psychology Today and her work has appeared in scores of online and print publications including Writer’s Digest Magazine, Arthritis Today, the Huffington Post, Spirituality & Health Magazine. She is a frequent speaker at writer’s conferences including the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference and the Virtual Erma, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop.
www.pollycampbell.com
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