{"id":430,"date":"2007-11-21T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2007-11-21T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:40:00","slug":"tips-on-writing-for-trade-the-7-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/11\/21\/tips-on-writing-for-trade-the-7-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips on Writing for Trade&#8211;The 7 Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R0RTKTaxWXI\/AAAAAAAAAsc\/c_Ex4EZFnGI\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R0RTKTaxWXI\/AAAAAAAAAsc\/c_Ex4EZFnGI\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>So it&#8217;s the part of my Making It Pop seminar where participants are starting to really work on their book proposals.  Thought I&#8217;d post the questions here that I urge folks to answer BEFORE sitting down to write, for those of you working on your props right now, too.   Here we go:<\/p>\n<p>1. In one sentence, what is this book about? (If you&#8217;re an academic or wonkily-inclined writer, be careful to phrase this in a way that will appeal to nonacademic readers)<br \/>2. What is your argument? (What is your thesis?) If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet have an argument, for now, answer this instead: What is the main question driving your book?<br \/>3. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new about this book? How is it different from existing books?<br \/>4. Why are you the person to write it?<br \/>5. Why is now the time to publish it?<br \/>6. Who is going to read it? Why will they find it appealing?<br \/>7. How will your book be organized? What is its structure?<\/p>\n<p>Very likely however, you, like me, are thinking about turkey and stuffing right about now, and, in case I don&#8217;t get back here much over the next few days,  I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/001952.php\">Image cred<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s the part of my Making It Pop seminar where participants are starting to really work on their book proposals. Thought I&#8217;d post the questions here that I urge folks to answer BEFORE sitting down to write, for those of you working on your props right now, too. Here we go: 1. In one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21414],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gwp-institute-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}