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The Road to Writing & Publishing Your First Book: How to Do It without going Crazy
- 1. The Road to Writing & Publishing Your First Book
- 2. How to do it without going …
- 4. From the Big Idea to the Boring Details: Lessons learned on how to edit your book to Write it Better, Faster and with Less Misery Details! Details! Details! Details! Details!
- 5. What does it take to write?
- 7. The Journey and what you’ll learn •Who the heck am I? •How I did it wrong •A better way of doing things •Lessons Learned •Resources I like
- 8. Maybe you’re asking …
- 9. Writer & Photog right from the “get-go”
- 10. How a coin toss changed my life
- 13. Adventurer
- 14. Freelance Writer & Photographer
- 15. Silicon Valley Days • Webmaster • Web content developer • Information architect
- 16. Glaucoma – almost went blind
- 17. Went down the rabbit hole
- 19. A voice from beyond me said …
- 20. “Do Your Bucket List!”
- 21. #1: “Kayak down the Grand Canyon!”
- 22. It became “the book I had to write” That journey …
- 23. This is the book …
- 24. It won this contest …
- 25. “Round 1”
- 26. Listed the key points …
- 27. Aggregate key ideas together …
- 29. Had the perfect writing life … • House sitting • No wifi • Surrounded by Nature
- 30. I wrote …
- 31. And wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote …
- 32. And wrote and wrote and wrote … 135,000 words
- 33. It was a train wreck!
- 34. I Hit the Wall
- 35. What do I do now?
- 36. Help!
- 37. I have great friends …
- 38. She’s a famous author …Marcy interrogates me about my book
- 40. I decided to Start Over
- 41. Start with the Big Picture
- 43. Why are you writing your book? •Who’s it for … you or an audience? •Do you intend to SELL it? •Is it to help your business – to establish your credibility, etc?
- 44. Get very clear on WHY you are writing your book.
- 45. •Is it for you? •Is it for an audience? •If for an audience – WHO?
- 46. Create a Customer “Avatar” Describe that person as clearly as possible.
- 47. Why would they want to read it? • What’s in it for them? • What’s their takeaway? • How does it benefit them? • What do they learn? • What experiences do they get from it? • Is there a universal theme in your book that will appeal to them?
- 49. Check out your local bookstore. Where would your book be located?
- 50. Research similar books on Amazon
- 51. • What else has been written? • What are the titles and subtitles? • How long are they? • What do the covers look like? • What do you like – and not like – about them? • Where would it go in the bookstore or on Amazon? Questions to research …
- 52. What the Market WantsWhat You Want
- 53. Merge it all together … • What do you want to write? • What does the market need? • What’s the opportunity?
- 54. Find your North Star, plot your course and WRITEFind your North Star, plot your course and WRITE
- 55. Big question – Where does it START and END?
- 56. Write the jacket copy of your book •First thing somebody reads about your book. •Answers WHY they should read it •Write it out!
- 58. Hard Copy Approach: Index cards, Post it notes, etc.
- 59. Software: Mindmapping, Scrivener, Word, etc
- 60. All your chapters should add up to the big idea
- 61. Name the chapters •They pull people in •Give them snappy titles
- 62. Write to the promise in each chapter •This will help keep your writing focused
- 63. Get that First Draft Out!
- 66. Don’t Stop Until You’re Done
- 68. Take a BIG break
- 70. Don’t be a draft dodger
- 74. Sometimes you ….
- 75. (And other times you don’t.)
- 76. Keep It Simple
- 77. Sometimes you need to do minor trimming.
- 78. Other times you need a chainsaw.
- 79. Let’s get tense! (and get it right!) 1.Know the Usage of each tense 2.Be mindful of shifting tenses 3.Know the verb's proper form for each tense
- 80. Details, details, details ….
- 83. “Arrrrrrr!!”
- 84. “Ahhhhhhh …. “
- 85. WHERE do you feel it? And WHAT is the SENSATION?
- 86. “She had a headache.”
- 87. “Hammers pounded her cranium. Snakes twisted, writhed and squeezed through her soul until she exploded.” “Hammers pounded her cranium. Snakes twisted, writhed and squeezed through her soul until she exploded.”
- 89. Do it with Sensory details
- 91. Get …
- 92. • It takes another pair of eyes to spot the errors you’ve missed • An error-free book makes a good impression to the readers • It is better to get a bad review from your editor than from your readers • There is always room for improvement • All the bestselling books have been edited professionally. It’s what readers expect. • You’ll lose credibility if there are errors.
- 93. Publish it as a Kindle first • Faster and easier to publish • There WILL be mistakes (Get over it) • MUCH easier to make changes • Continue to make corrections • THEN publish it as a book
- 95. Books on writing I’ve liked
- 96. Software
- 97. Microsoft Word Learn how to use “Track Changes”
Notes de l'éditeur
- Heads I go to D.C.; Tails I’ll check out Sun Valley
- Ended up in Sun Valley, Idaho
- Hit the Wall
- What do I do now?
- Did this course
- Where do you start? Where do you end?
- Do the brain dump. You’re going to do it anyway. Don’t stop until you’re done.