GenresNon-fiction
Health & Wellness
The body, attended to without slogans.
Health writing sits between a reader's body and a great deal of noise. They want to know what to do about sleep, food, fitness, pain, or the slow business of staying well, and they have already met a lot of certainty that turned out to be fashion. Your job is to be as clear as the evidence allows, and no clearer. That means saying when something is well established, when it is promising, and when it is a guess with a good marketing department.
Stories make the science stick, and they can also mislead if one person's recovery is asked to stand in for a rule. Be particular about who the advice is for. A fitness plan for a healthy twenty-five-year-old is not a kindness when it is handed, unchanged, to everyone else. Write the practical steps, the likely difficulties, and the point at which a reader should talk to a doctor rather than to your next chapter. Warmth is welcome. Miracle language is not, even when it would make a better cover.
The kinds of book inside it
Nutrition
Food advice should be livable and honest about evidence, culture, and money, not only about an ideal plate.
Fitness
The reader needs a practice they can repeat, with enough guidance to start and enough humility about bodies that are not all the same.
Sleep
A small subject with a large effect, best handled with practical detail and a refusal to pretend one routine suits every life.
Mental health
The writing should be careful, useful, and clear about the difference between a book and treatment, without being cold.
Longevity
The promise of a longer life attracts exaggeration, so the book should separate what is known from what is being sold.
When you want a first sketch, Storywell can draft a contents list in this vein. You are still the one who writes the book. Compose an idea.