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  Tips for how to effectively research both fiction and nonfiction book:   First, let’s distinguish the difference between fiction and nonfiction writing because I’m always asked this question and figured I’d answer it now so you will understand the rationale between the two. There are two different types of writing f iction and nonfiction. Fiction is a storyline that is created from your imagination with fictitious people, situations, and events. Whereas nonfiction is created based on real-life events and people.   As an author, I can tell you straight away that research is essential to any good book. Whether it be fiction or nonfiction storylines, a writer needs to do some research first. Now I might write nonfiction stories, but I like to include real historical information to help entice my readers to explore the history books to see if I am right on the money with my historical facts. They are shocked to discover that when I write is actually accurate base...

Proper Research So, you have an idea to write a book. It doesn’t matter what type of book you plan to write, well except science fiction about some outer space galaxy that hasn’t been named yet, you will have to do some form of research to ensure you have all the facts correctly. Let’s say you’re planning to write a book that involves one of the previous wars, or maybe politics, a government agency, law enforcement, a specific murder, or even royalty in some period of time, you have to make sure you do proper research to ensure you have details right, historical timeline correct and most importantly wording and language correct. The last thing you want to do is write a 150-word novel only to realize in the editing phase that you were using a modern phrase that wasn’t even invented yet in the 1700s. How embarrassing would that be to your fans. In addition, while conducting your research you might come upon information that would be a great filler in a chapter. One thing I love to includ...