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I¡¯m Bobbi Linkemer on behalf of expertvillage.com, and I¡¯d like to invite you to visit my website at writeanonfictionbook.com. Let¡¯s talk about what it takes to write a book. My first law is nothing gets published that hasn¡¯t been written first. In my opinion, it takes 6 things: desire, a concept, a plan, a long attention span, self discipline, and support and guidance. Let¡¯s just take a minute to talk about each one of those. Desire, that means you have to want to write this book and you have to want it a lot because you¡¯re going to be working on it for a long time, and you have to be absolutely in love with your subject. That¡¯s the real test, how important is this to you and how much do you really want to write this book. Second thing is a concept. What is the book about? What is your message? Why is it important that you get that message across to other people? Why do they even want to know this and why do you care? Can you articulate it very quickly? The third thing is a plan. You wouldn¡¯t start out, this is a clich¨¦ I know, but you wouldn¡¯t start out on a trip without a map or a plan or a GPS system. You would know where you were going; you would plug in your destination and you don¡¯t start a book without a plan. The plan, which we will talk about a little later, is a proposal. The third thing you need is to stick with you subject for a long time. That means a long attention span; it can take anywhere from 6 months to years to write a book. Have you ever talked to anybody who spent 10 years writing a book? That¡¯s a long time to stay excited about one subject. Think about it as tying a knot on one end of this process, and that¡¯s when you get the idea and you formulate your concept and you pull it through all of the steps, including writing and everything that comes after writing. When you have the book in the hand, that isn¡¯t even the end. You keep going because you have to promote it and you have to sell it. Your goal is to get into the hands of your audience. When you finally do that you tie your knot at then end. That¡¯s the process that you have to stay enthused and excited about for the whole time.