The past week has been quite hectic, with the day job calling as well as a reggae concert I attended towards the end of last week. It was an exciting and yet surreal experience being at the show, I grew up listening to these two big reggae artists and never at that time did I think I would get to see them perform live on stage.
I have deliberately withheld details of who the artists are as I have a review of the concert and some photos coming shortly so you do not have long to wait to find who the mystery gig was.
OK apologies you had to wait this long for part 2 of my How To Write A Book Article, but I am sure you have been busy going through the first 10 parts. Now lets go on to the next one...
11. Once you have finished dictating your entire book, have someone type it out for you and give it back so you can move to the next step.
12. This next step is the beginning of some long hard hours. Set up a strict work schedule and block off two, three or four hours at a time. Discipline yourself to sit down and edit during this time, always remember to take regular breaks to refresh yourself.
13. Edit the entire book from front to back the first time. Correct the grammar and typing mistakes. Create the necessary paragraphing. This has to be the longest job of editing in the whole book creation process.
14. Write your Introduction, a Preface and Acknowledgements if necessary. I am sure you are wondering why this only gets mentioned now? Well, you now more or less have a "book" and you know exactly what it is about and its better to write the Introduction now.
15. The second edit provides structure to your book. Break up the text with a heading every 2, 3, 4 paragraphs, making it “bite-sized” and easy to read.
16. Place a quote at the beginning of each chapter in your Third edit. Create three, five or seven action steps at the end of each chapter if it is a self-improvement or educational book.
17. Your fourth edit allows you to polish the sentences, delete unnecessary material, and make final corrections.
18. Completely reread the entire book in your fifth and final edit, from cover to cover. This should take you the least amount of time of all since you are now very familiar with your book.
19. Writing a book is a time consuming process that requires 50-100 hours of work, once you have gathered all your material and carried out all your research
20. Gentle classical background music is highly recommended when you are working. It improves alertness, creativity and fluency.
I hope to one day apply all these steps in writing my own book. In the meantime I hope I have given you the starting point you have been looking for. You may have been entertaining the idea for a long time and never got to act on it. My message for you today is "there is never a better moment to start than the present moment". Grab the initiative, stop thinking and start working on your book today.
Your support and feedback is immensely appreciated, and please feel free to send your work for proof reading or share your concepts with me so we can work together to get your book ready.
Until the next post Read, Enjoy and Share. Peace and Love
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