GET HOW TO WRITE CREATIVE NON-FICTION & HOW TO TALK TO CRAZY PEOPLE AS A FREE GIFT FOR THIS CLASS WRITTEN BY DONNA KAY KAKONGE

More and more writers are self-publishing. Learn how to publish your work in a cost-effective way that stands up to the rigor of traditional publishing. This course will expose you to the various online and print shop resources that will make self-publishing your work simple and profitable. Each participant receives a free eBook that the teacher has written.

Opening scene: It’s Cindy’s last year of high school at Stephen Leacock Collegiate in Scarborough, Ontario. Her friend Gino and Cindy sit on a bus on our way to downtown Toronto. A man boards the bus and immediately screams at the passengers standing in the bus aisle who he thinks deliberately blocks his path.

Gino: “He’s nine-nine-nine. He’s nine-nine-nine.

Cindy: What does that mean?”

Gino: “It means he’s crazy. He’s from 999 Queen Street (a psychiatric hospital at the time) and he’s a loon!”

Cindy sits quietly and fidgets with my hands. Cindy stares at the man’s facial tics and listens intently to his babble about “spies” and “the devil coming” and “the end of the world.”

The above is a sample of my writing. Here is a sample of a chapter-by-chapter outline that I wrote that will help you to get started with your book:

-psychiatric floor setting

-another inmate on the floor finds out that they can do customer service work inside the psychiatric hospital and build a business together doing this

-they work on it through two different companies

-one of these companies is known as ExCalls Inc. and the other one is known as Complete Calls with a longer training time and all of these companies that they work for need to pay for the training

-their families help them to get the money to pay for the customer service training

-they also do some cleaning on the side with a local company called Maid Delight to earn extra money

-it's the kind of psychiatric hospital that is trying to train these two women to become independent and keep off drugs because both of them have addiction problems with crack and cocaine, as well as marijuana

-they figure getting the jobs is better than sitting around and watching TV and having their lives be eaten up by the past year that they spent in the hospital

-both of them have natural hair and they both know their hair is their crowning glory and the best thing about themselves

-while one of the women is connecting cords in the psychiatric hospital to boot her old and rusty computer, she did not know not to connect two three-pronged extension cords together and all of the nurses were sleeping

-the woman electrocutes herself and she could have died if she were not wearing the hospital-issued shoes because she had a penchant for wearing high heels because she was an extremely petite woman

-there was a scar on her left hand that made it difficult for her to maneuver at first with her customer service calling, but the first thing she said when saw the boil on her hand was: "it will heal."

-the nurses provided her with antibiotics which her parents paid for

-both of the women's parents were paying to keep the women in the hospital until they stopped their addictions to drugs

-the antibiotic helped to heal the pale bruise and grow one of the woman's brown skin back

-as she saw her hand getting normal, she began to love herself, love the customer service work she was doing with her friend, as well as encourage her friend to love herself

-there was a new development of a drug that came out that would stop people who were addicted to drugs to stop taking drugs

-both of the women's parents agreed to pay for the drugs and the women left the psychiatric hospital one month later and continued working together with their businesses and thriving living at their parents' homes, plus helping to keep their parents' homes in good shape with the benefits that had learned in staying in the expensive, but good psychiatric hospital which was privately owned

Assignment Deadline Weight

Self-Publishing Online Debate Week Two 10 percent

Book Outline (optional) Week Three 10 percent

Online Consulting on Your Project Each Week 20 percent

Twenty Pages Week Four 15 percent

Self-Publishing Marketing Plan (optional) Week Five 30 percent

References (optional)

How To Talk To Crazy People by Donna Kakonge:

Chicago Manual of Style – latest edition

Also online at OWL Purdue.

How to Write Creative Non-fiction by Donna Kakonge