Want To Write A Book? Part 1

Tap into one of the most economical ways of writing and promoting your book?

When it comes to writing, publishing or marketing a book, I know that many authors struggle, particularly if they stick to the conventional route of handwriting or typing up the book and then physically promoting their book at booksellers such as Barnes and Noble.

Well, I’m going to tell you how you can break with convention!

I’m going to give you my two penny’s worth here and then tomorrow, I’m going to send you information about another unconventional way of getting your book out of your head and onto paper?  Is that okay with you?

Now, I know you’re first question is going to be … "Trish are you a published author?"  And that’s a fair question.  And the answer is that I will become a contributing author on the 1st June to a Christian Women’s book series Refined by Fire, which is a snippet of my life story, but the full rendition of the story is being written right now and will be out in a matter of months.

The first way of breaking with tradition if you are a published author or want to become a published author, is to dispense with the pen to paper or "manuscript" initially if this is what is holding you back.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken to so many people who want to write their story, but the prospect of putting pen to paper and organizing it frightens the living daylights out of them.  Now, I am going to tell you that there are resources, good resources that will help you plan and write your book using the "manuscript" method and in fact I’m using one of them right now to help me with the outline of my book.  But, it’s not everyone’s meat.

So if that budding author inside of you is begging to emerge but not sure how to put things in order, consider using a blog just to get your ideas down.

Just tell it like it is … 

You really don’t need the literary prose in order to be a good writer, you just need to be able to "tell it like it is."  Naturally, the final manuscript will have to be edited, but the first thing you have to concern yourself with, is just start!

Create yourself a rough plan of how you would like your story to look and then take chunks and them in your blog as though you are telling a good friend.  After you have a number of entries, consider taking these, ordering and editing and you have the outline for your book.  The method is the same whether you are publishing a printed book or ebook.

This takes the stress from you thinking that you have to have the whole thing in your head before you begin.  But as I said, there are other ways and I’m going to be outlining those in the next few days.

Ciao for now,

 

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