It’s great to be an author. If you’re an author, you’ve written a book. Thousands, maybe millions of people want to write a book. Only a few do. Here’s the dirty little secret of becoming an author. If you can read a book, you can probably write a book. You don’t need great writing talent or the biggest brain in » Read More
Category: Writing A Book
Writing a Book: When it’s time to write, throw all your mental energy into the task
If you’re a part-time author, you’ve got a lot of things on your plate. You’ve got your day job, of course. Then there are family obligations, what you do for recreation, and any volunteer work you do. Writing time is scarce. You must make the best of it. The only way to do that is to throw all your mental energy » Read More
Writing a Book: How to Beat Outline Block
Most of us learned to write for the first time in elementary school. That’s why so many of us are outline-dependent. We imagine an English teacher at the front of the room waiting for us to hand in our outline before we can write. I try to get most of my clients who are planning a book to use something other than an » Read More
Why you should do a book proposal, even if you self-publish
There are plenty of good reasons to self-publish your business book. Since you’re the “self” in self-publishing, you get the final decision on every aspect of the final product. Self-publishing is faster to market, too. You avoid the lengthy process of writing a book proposal and selling it to an agent. You » Read More
Is there an easy way to write a book?
Jamie’s email was straightforward. “I just read your white paper on the publishing process. What you described seems like an awful lot of work, and I see ads all the time for easy ways to write my book. Why do you think it’s so hard?” You may have the same question that Jamie has. There are lots of people who claim » Read More