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Writing Challenge - How To Write A Book In 30 Days Or Less by Christopher Simmons
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Writing Challenge - How To Write A Book In 30 Days Or Less |
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So you've decided to take up the writing challenge. Now you're wondering how in heaven's name you're going to write a book in 30 days or less. And by this point you're wondering if it can be done. You're in luck... it can. Well under in fact. So what's the key? Simple... discipline, motivation and a great system. Discipline and motivation, because if you don't sit down and start writing you'll never finish. Not in 30 days, 60 days or 100 years. Now in 400 or so words I can't really give you the details on writing your book in under 30 days. But I can give you an overview and at the bottom of this page is a link to a free course in greater detail. Week 1. Welcome to planning week. We'll start by planning your book. How big a book do you want? What will it be about? Who is the target reader? What are they like? What is their pain point? What problem are they trying to solve? How will your book fix their problem or overcome their pain point? Traditional book or an eBook? How do you intend to publish it? All these questions and more need to be answered before you can sit down to writing. Step two is to design your book in detail. For this you'll need a structured cognitive tool, such as our concept map. A cognitive tool will help you to draw the information out of your mind in the most efficient and effective way. It will help you to make linkages and create hierarchies. Unfortunately, the information is going to come out of mind in an unsequenced form. Which won't help you to actually write your book. That's why you need a structured tool. The tool will help you to organize the result into a sequence which will help you to write your book. Step three is to edit your book. Yes, you now have a book. Yes, it's in an odd form but it has sequence, it has organization and it has content. It's ready in other words to perform a structural edit on. And now is when you need to do that edit, not after you've written the book. Not when any changes involve major rewrites and a great deal of time. Now, when a major change will involve a few hours of work at most. Week 2 & 3 Once you've corrected the structure and you're happy with the organization it's time to put the words around the ideas you've mapped. It's also time to apply the discipline we talked about. You need to have a fixed time of at least 2 hours to write each chapter. But 4 hours or 2 chapters is better. Each of the topics on your content map will become a paragraph. All you need to do is fill in the words behind the paragraph. Like talking to a PowerPoint slide. Each topic on the content map is a point on the slide. All you have to do is talk for two minutes per point. Not really as hard as it sounds. Write to the paper. Start and don't stop. Turn off the autocorrect and spell checker. You aren't going to correct anything. Just write as quickly as you can. Write until you've finished the chapter. Then stand up and stretch. Go to the washroom if you need to. Get a refill of your coffee. Then go back and write the next chapter. Don't correct, don't go back. Tomorrow you'll start by editing what you did today. Tomorrow you'll correct whatever mistakes you made. Tomorrow is good enough. Every day, edit what you did yesterday. Then write the next two chapters. Continue until you run out of book. Week 4 By now you'll have finished writing your book. Believe it or not. After all, you only need five days to finish a full sized book -- not a popular or executive length -- but a full 50,000 word, 200 page book. The kind that doesn't sell any more. In fact, if you're looking for a popular length -- the type that most experts produce -- you finished last week! All that's left is to send the book out for the final copy editing. Get the spelling and the grammar checked and corrected. Make your book perfect. And guess what? You've met the writing challenge! That's how to write a book in 30 days or less -- with a system. buy essays now
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