You have read through amazing titles on Mediazide and now you are aching to write your own. You've got a book inside of you that is aching to be born. Fantastic! Let us ask you this..."When you picture your book in your mind's eye, what does it look like?"
Is it a memoir that tells about your personal life struggles in story form? Or is it a self-help book that tells about your personal life struggles in an instructional manner? It needs to be one or the other, not a hybrid. There are no bookshelves for "mem-help books" or "selfmoirs". This is a difficult choice to make for many writers. But it's critical.
A great memoir stands out from the rest because it speaks to the emotions and experiences of other people in story form. You need to develop the skills of an outstanding storyteller with tales drawn from your life. You need to amaze people with your artful writing style and turn of phrase.
A self-help book is another thing altogether. Granted, a well-written self-help book speaks to the emotions and experiences of other people. But readers expect the truth to be distilled in easy to digest chunks that they can immediately apply to their own lives.
Both genres intent is to help people-but in very different ways. With your genre clearly in mind, you can write, publish and promote a book that is highly competitive on the market today.
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