Anyone can publish a book these days. With the emergence of POD (publish on demand) companies where authors can write and upload their books for sale to customers on an as needed basis as well as the Kindle book publishing method, many are realizing their dream of holding their very own books in their hand and adding the word AUTHOR to their biographies. In this article I will teach you the process behind writing your own self help book in 12 days.
Organizing Your Book – Day One
Organizing a book will only take one day as you prepare the outline.
1. Decide on a topic for your book. I usually decide on the name of my book first and it inspires me throughout my writing process.
2. Write down 10 questions your book will answer concerning your topic. Each of these questions will become your book chapters. Since most books have 10 chapters you can add more if you’d like, but you don’t have to. Now you should have a book title and a list of questions which will become the chapters of your book.
3. For each question write down as many answers to the question as you can think of. List these answers as bullets under each question. Move through each of your chapters this way until you have outlined all of them.
Writing Your Book – Day Two through Eleven
You can write one chapter a day by deciding which day you want to write and sitting down to do it. You already have the topic questions and the answers, all you have to do is expound on each answer.
Illustrate the answers to each question by citing examples, sharing stories, resources and information to validate your views.
Write out one chapter per day and don’t worry about editing anything, that will come later.
Polishing Your Book’s Structure– Day Twelve
Now that you have the guts of your book written you can go ahead and change the chapter questions to statements. These will become your chapter headings.
Example:
Title: It’s Not A Sin To Be Single
Chapter Question: How can I relieve myself sexually as a single person?
Chapter Heading (After the outline): It’s Not A Sin To Touch Yourself
Be creative with your chapter headings. Write headings that will grab attention and also support your book title.
Next, Add an introduction at the beginning of your book that explains why you wrote the book and how the reader will benefit from reading it.
The rest of the process is editing and you’ll have to develop your own strategy for that. For tips on structure, editing, formulating plots for fiction books and how to market your book, I highly recommend that you order Nick Daws’ Course, How To Write A Book in 28 Days. This will become your new book writing bible. It was extremely useful to me. I wrote my first self help book in just 6 weeks because I used this guide, while a full time graduate student and single mom.
Happy Writing!
Very interesting recipe! I would love to try it myself and I will as soon as I can get the ingredients together!
This is actually what always helps me get started on writing books http://howtofixstuff.blogspot.ca/2012/04/tips-on-writing-book.html
I LOVE YOU!…. I have already started writing my book and hit a wall…writing and rewriting. I needed “something” to get me over the hump and headed to completing this last chapter (which is in the MIDDLE of the book)… AND THIS IS IT!
Thank you for freely sharing!
Awesome article I loved it. Definitely might consider doing this 🙂
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Very helpful info! Thank you : )