Video 1 Writing Your Book from I Want to Publish My Book But I Don't Know How

Video 1: Intro to Writing Your Book and Publishing Your Book.


The steps to writing your book can be varied, there are no strict rules of thumb. There are a million ways to write a book. The one you choose will be the one that fits your style. Questions you might consider asking yourself is: Is your book all text or all pictures or a combination of both? Are you writing a novel, creating a children’s book, a how-to book, cookbook, or poetry book? Whatever it is, begin by put your ideas down on paper or in a computer, creating an outline or a slurry of generated ideas. You can also dictate or record yourself speaking your ideas and then transcribe and edit. Let the creative ideas flow and build one on top of the other. You will begin to see the magic of your writing abilities take form.

However, this book isn’t about the mechanics of writing it is about publishing what you have written. There are many resources available to help you with your writing.

My advice is to write your book using a standard word processing program like MS-Word or Google Docs and keep the formatting simple. Whichever freelancer or software you work with to create your project can take that text and the images and create the book.


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Some of the book writing resources that I like:• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, this is a classic
• One of my favorite resources is Steven Pressfield’s blog and his books. He is a wonderful writer of fiction, non-fiction and the process of writing. Check out “The Series” area of his blog. http://www.stevenpressfield.com/ He has an entire series of excellent how-to books on writing; The War of Art, Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative.
• On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft, Steven King
• On Writing Well, William Zinsser
• The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
• How to Write Bestselling Fiction, Dean Koontz
• The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
• Write, Publish, Repeat, Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant, this book is a must on how to manage your writing and build a career and income from your books. This is one of the best I have read on how to structure your books to lead your readers from one book the next. I highly recommend reading this book.
• Joanna Penn and TheCreativePenn.com blog and books. Joanna is a British best-selling thriller author. Along with her novels she writes on writing, marketing, publishing and making a living as an author. Her book How to Market a Book is excellent. https://www.thecreativepenn.com/

Resources:One of the easiest ways to get the word down is to dictate your them. You can just speak it into your phone or computer; audio or video. A great way to do this is to create a series of questions and have someone interview you. Record it, transcribe and edit. A great place to do this is while you commute in your car. You do it every day and there is no one to bother you. Both of the services below can take audio, video or just link from a video.
• Rev.com, a fantastic service for transcription, very accurate, $1.00/minute, https://www.rev.com/
• Temi.com, audio to text transcription, uses speech recognition software, $0.10/minute, https://www.temi.com/

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