Tyler Wagner, founder of AuthorsUnite.com, says the best writing advice for nonfiction authors is to write as you would speak. Let readers hear your voice. Give them everything you have, cut the fluff, and skip the big words to sound smart.
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The best writing advice that I ever received. My name is Tyler Wagner. I'm the founder of AuthorsUnite.com, and I want to give you the best writing advice I ever received. The best writing advice that I ever received is write as you would speak. Where most people mess up is they they're trying to write in a way that they feel others will think they sound intelligent. So they try to use all these big words, add a bunch of fluff, and just try to really make it the biggest, most sounding intelligent book that they possibly can. And that's actually where they fail. That's where they lose their reader. How you should write your book is you should write as you would speak so that when somebody is reading your book, it actually, like, they can hear your voice in their mind as they're reading it. Okay, and then also how you should write your book is you should write your book in a way that only provides as much value as possible to your reader and nothing more, right? So give it all away, right? Like, give it all away. You're a nonfiction author, personal development author, like, give it all away. Give them everything you got. But don't add fluff. Just give them everything you got. Add as much value as possible and nothing more, and write as you speak. Okay? So if you want help with publishing and marketing your book, go to authorsunite.com, and I look forward to seeing you there.