Tips for Authors: Are You a Fiction or Nonfiction Writer?

Writing is an art and one that should always be treasured, both by the writer and the reader!

Are you a fiction author, or a non-fiction author, or both? This is my next author tip. You need to determine what kind of book you want to write. Now I write both. It wasn’t always like this.

I love to write and most of my books are non-fiction. They are more “how to” books, sharing with other principles I have learned over the years. My motivation for writing is to help people to walk in their Divine destiny, finding and enjoying everything that was proposed to them since the foundation of the world. I think everyone is special. Everyone has worth, value and purpose. However, very few experience its purpose, and this can be due to various reasons. Perhaps they have not come to the knowledge and understanding that they have a purpose. Maybe they know they have one, but haven’t figured out what it is yet. If one doesn’t know their purpose for being, they are likely to live aimlessly, day to day, and completely bored too! My writings aim to help people find God and embrace destiny. In fact, I thought that was all I could write, not fiction.

Actually, I never thought I could write a fiction book. Now, I had a friend whose mind was extremely creative and full of imagination. When he talked and shared incidents, it seemed like you could actually get lost in the details and get a big picture of the event he was trying to describe to you. He was so good as a storyteller. He had been encouraging her for years to write a book. He never did. Sadly, he passed away and the world never got to see the masterpiece of a book he had planned to write. May this not be your luck! Write your book and bless the world with your thoughts or your imagination. You never know how many lives you can improve, even after leaving this side.

I have never seen myself as someone who could tell a story like him. So I stayed away from fiction. So one day, I decided to write the story of a physically and mentally abused wife and her struggle to regain her sanity, especially since she had a son to live for. The story seemed to flow and I wrote it (if memory serves) in a matter of months. My goal was to make it as relevant as possible, and yet take the reader on a journey into the world of abuse and its perverse effects on a person, long after the abuse has ceased. After doing a good cover, “Genna’s Fight” was released and “WOW”, what a reception it had. Both locally and abroad, people applauded the work, some even calling for it to be made into a movie. In fact, a magazine in the UK ran a story about it, and the owner of it posted a great review on Amazon, and also asked for it to be made into a movie. Since then, I have published two more novels and am currently working on another book.

My purpose in writing about this is to encourage you not to limit yourself to what you can or cannot do. You can start out as a fiction writer, telling wonderful stories that capture the imagination. Then you can feel the thrill of writing a nonfiction based on a principle that you may have experienced and learned. (Or vice versa). You may think you can’t do it. After all, you are a fiction writer (or non-fiction writer), right? Don’t limit yourself. Write from your heart. Write from your agitation. Take it one book at a time. Don’t limit yourself to one style of writing or one type of writing. Only write. Be creative. Be considerate. Be determined. You never know how far your book or writing will go.