Writing Hard Truths And Tips For Writing Non-Fiction With Efren Delgado
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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How do we write authentic humanity into our books, whether that's our own experience or a fictional character's? How can we embrace the challenges of life and the author journey and make the most of the opportunities along the way? Efren Delgado gives his tips in this interview. In the intro, How to plan and […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business. |
| 0:14.9 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more at thecreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a |
| 0:23.7 | double N. And here's the show. Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number |
| 0:29.6 | 758 of the podcast, and it is Thursday the 20th of June, 24, as I record this. In today's show, |
| 0:41.1 | I'm talking to Ephraind Delgado, a former FBI special agent about writing hard truths and his tips for writing nonfiction with extensive |
| 0:47.8 | quotes and references, which is quite a challenge. I really enjoyed this discussion with |
| 0:52.7 | Ephron as he doesn't flinch away from the difficult |
| 0:55.9 | topics in his book, which is really about human behaviour and the elements of psychology that help us |
| 1:01.7 | know ourselves better, understand those we disagree with, and also write better characters, both good |
| 1:07.9 | and evil. So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:14.2 | In Publishing Things, on the self-publishing advice blog, an article on how to plan and release |
| 1:20.7 | a second edition of your book, which I've done multiple times with both nonfiction and also |
| 1:26.8 | fiction, as things change and books |
| 1:29.2 | need updating, and I always get questions about this, so I thought I would share a few of the |
| 1:33.9 | tips from the article, which is very good. So first of all, what counts as a new edition? Well, |
| 1:39.7 | significant differences. So new chapters or something that creates a different experience for the reader. |
| 1:46.9 | For example, I am considering a new edition of the successful author mindset, which is now eight |
| 1:53.0 | years old, which is crazy. There's a whole load of new material I want to add. I want to update |
| 1:58.7 | older material. I'm a different person. Also, someone else |
| 2:02.3 | narrated that audio book and I would like to do the new edition because it's actually a really |
| 2:07.0 | personal book, but at the time, I didn't want to do audio editing and audio narration and now |
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