How to Publish a Book - Fast and Easy Ways to Write Your First Draft
Do you have a book inside you but you don't know how to begin writing the first draft? This article can help you.
I want to share with you two of the quickest ways to organize your first draft-authoring project.
Once I explain these two formulas to you and you start looking at various books on the market, I think you'll be surprised at how many books are organized this way.
While there are more sophisticated ways to organize your book or information product, and you might have one that you prefer, these two ways are tried and true.
Plus, they're fast and easy to do.
You can use them whether you want to write your book or speak it into print.
I want you to know about them.
Organizing Formula #1: 101 Ways The first way is to focus on organizing your content as 101 ways to do "X.
" What's "X"? "X" is your topic.
For example, Rawley Pinsky is an expert on promotion.
She wrote a fabulous little book called "101 Ways to Promote Yourself.
" To do an average size business book of 168 pages or so, remember that you'll be focusing on creating 200 or so manuscript pages.
Organizing your draft as "101 Ways" allows you to focus on two pages of contents for each of the 101 ways.
This is a simple and straight forward approach to creating your first draft.
Also, keep in mind that you could pick a number besides 101.
I have a book by Bernard Kamoroff, who is a CPA, a certified public accountant.
The title and subtitle of the book are "422 Tax Deductions: For Businesses and Self-Employed Individuals.
" In his case, he came up with 422 points and he just basically listed them in a book.
Well, I bought it and a lot of other people did too.
Decades of direct marketing testing have found that odd numbers tend to pull and get results much more than even numbers.
Picking an odd number rather than an even number is a good idea.
Organizing Formula #2: The 20 X 5 Process Another one of the quickest ways to organize your first draft is based on the fact that the average how-to book is 20 chapters.
This is what I called the "20 x 5" process.
To use it, first you identify 20 particular topics that you want to focus on in your book.
You get these 20 topics from the book topic research that I teach.
These become your chapter titles and they're the 20 piles that you make using the pile up system.
Next you identify five subtopics for every one of your 20 chapter topics.
These five become the five subheads to each of your 20 chapter.
You then write or speak using just two pages on each of the 20 subheads.
You'll then have a 200-page manuscript done that's easy and straightforward.
In this article, you have learned two reliable formulas for creating a first draft for a book or information product.
I look forward to sharing with you more time-tested strategies and tactics for writing a book that attracts a lifelong stream of clients and income.
I want to share with you two of the quickest ways to organize your first draft-authoring project.
Once I explain these two formulas to you and you start looking at various books on the market, I think you'll be surprised at how many books are organized this way.
While there are more sophisticated ways to organize your book or information product, and you might have one that you prefer, these two ways are tried and true.
Plus, they're fast and easy to do.
You can use them whether you want to write your book or speak it into print.
I want you to know about them.
Organizing Formula #1: 101 Ways The first way is to focus on organizing your content as 101 ways to do "X.
" What's "X"? "X" is your topic.
For example, Rawley Pinsky is an expert on promotion.
She wrote a fabulous little book called "101 Ways to Promote Yourself.
" To do an average size business book of 168 pages or so, remember that you'll be focusing on creating 200 or so manuscript pages.
Organizing your draft as "101 Ways" allows you to focus on two pages of contents for each of the 101 ways.
This is a simple and straight forward approach to creating your first draft.
Also, keep in mind that you could pick a number besides 101.
I have a book by Bernard Kamoroff, who is a CPA, a certified public accountant.
The title and subtitle of the book are "422 Tax Deductions: For Businesses and Self-Employed Individuals.
" In his case, he came up with 422 points and he just basically listed them in a book.
Well, I bought it and a lot of other people did too.
Decades of direct marketing testing have found that odd numbers tend to pull and get results much more than even numbers.
Picking an odd number rather than an even number is a good idea.
Organizing Formula #2: The 20 X 5 Process Another one of the quickest ways to organize your first draft is based on the fact that the average how-to book is 20 chapters.
This is what I called the "20 x 5" process.
To use it, first you identify 20 particular topics that you want to focus on in your book.
You get these 20 topics from the book topic research that I teach.
These become your chapter titles and they're the 20 piles that you make using the pile up system.
Next you identify five subtopics for every one of your 20 chapter topics.
These five become the five subheads to each of your 20 chapter.
You then write or speak using just two pages on each of the 20 subheads.
You'll then have a 200-page manuscript done that's easy and straightforward.
In this article, you have learned two reliable formulas for creating a first draft for a book or information product.
I look forward to sharing with you more time-tested strategies and tactics for writing a book that attracts a lifelong stream of clients and income.