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372: Ideas and Nonfiction: Your Book Idea Contains Multitudes

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That first non-fiction book may seem easy—it’s your THING, the thing you know—but you still have to hone it down. Is it advice, information, the story of how you learned what you know? Inspirational, confrontational, aspirational? And then comes the next book. And the next. And it still always comes back to the idea.

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372: Ideas and Nonfiction: Your Book Idea Contains Multitudes

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