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Ian Wishart

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Born

New Zealand

Website

http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz

Twitter

investigatemag

Genre

Nonfiction, History, Religion

Influences

David Yallop, Jonathon Kwitny

Member Since

June 2015

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Ian Wishart is a multi-award winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of more than 20 books, who's now in his fourth decade in the news business. His writing style has often been compared to John Grisham by reviewers.

He's been a radio News Director, a Chief of Staff for TV3 News and a magazine editor. His work has featured in the Times of London, Daily Mail, New Zealand Herald and America's massive Coast to Coast radio programme - to name a few. His books Totalitaria, Air Con and Vitamin D became Amazon bestsellers worldwide.

While writing his first book, The Paradise Conspiracy, Wishart's TVNZ office was discovered to have been bugged, his home was broken into, the manuscript for the book stolen, and an attempt was made on hi ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ian Wishart There are two answers to this question. If it's non-fiction, sit down with a cup of coffee, review your notes and find an ingredient of the story you …moreThere are two answers to this question. If it's non-fiction, sit down with a cup of coffee, review your notes and find an ingredient of the story you are passionate about and write about that. Once your engine is revving, the writing takes care of itself. I'm a bit like a cat kneading a cushion...it takes me a while to get into writing mode but then it's all go.

If it is fiction, then pre-planning your story skeleton plays a big role in avoiding writer's block. As I teach in my writing mentoring webinars...if you know what your core story is before you actually start writing, then filling in the twists and turns between beginning and end is much easier and more fun, because you know your destination. Writer's block is much more prone to hit when you start writing "Once upon a time" and then find yourself thinking, "what then?". My advice? Identify your story, write a paragraph describing that story and stick it on the wall to remind you every time you glance up from the keyboard with a blank stare...(less)

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Average rating: 3.72 · 803 ratings · 125 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	Elementary: The Explosive File On Scott Watson And The Disappearance Of Ben & Olivia: What Haven't They Told You? 3.50 avg rating — 144 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breaking Silence 3.76 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & Its Treaty 4.21 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vitamin D: Is this the Miracle Vitamin? 4.08 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Show Me The Money, Honey: The Truth About Big Pharma's War On Salt, Chocolate, Cholesterol and the Natural Health Products That Could Save Your Life 4.07 avg rating — 57 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Totalitaria: What If the Enemy Is the State? 3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming 3.83 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missing Pieces: The Swedish Tourists' Murders 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eve's Bite 3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars