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How to Commit Murder Accurately For New Crime Writers.
Choose your plants carefully!
This morning I’m sitting down to start my BYOB project. It refers to Built Your Own Book. Shaunta Grimes, head of Ninja Writers, developed this program for the ninja writers. It’s a four-month program.
In the first month, we decide what we will write about. We determine which titles and the subtitles are appropriate, so when we start on August 1st, we can just write about whatever the title is for the day.
In the second month, we write and publish that blog post daily. The plan is to write 31 blog posts about a specific topic.
The third month is to edit the blog posts, and the fourth month is to learn to publish the combined blog posts in a book form on Amazon.
This is the third year I have attempted this. The first year, I wrote all 31 blog posts but didn’t edit or send them to Amazon as a book. I learned that I could blog every day. I didn’t complete the program then, but I’m ready now.
Committing Murder Accurately
A couple of years ago, I ran the idea of writing a nonfiction book about toxic plants with Shaunta Grimes. Writers say, write what you know. I was a Certified Poison Information Specialist before retiring and know…
