{"id":4317,"date":"2021-09-04T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2023-01-15T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:35:23","slug":"working-on-my-book-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"Working on My Book Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All I have been doing in the past weeks is working on my book proposal, the one I wrote more than a year ago. Since then, learning and practice have helped me identify the mistakes I had made, then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A book proposal is like a business plan. 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