Presents a proven method for easily generating ideas, developing ideas, organizing materials and “step-by-step” transforming them into a book.
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HOW TO WRITE YOUR BOOK: GUARANTEED
TO THE READER
My name is Tom Williams, and I wrote this book for you. In doing so I assume that at least one of the following three things is true:
-You have a book idea in your head that’s going to drive you crazy if you don’t get it down on paper, but you don’t know how to do it.
-You have some idea how to write your book, but find yourself struggling through a morass of disorganization, false starts and self-imposed limitations.
-You really don’t want to write a book, but you don’t have any choice. Whether you like it or not, you’ve got to sit down at your typewriter or computer and start hitting those keys.
Perhaps your boss told you to write a company history;or you have to write a thesis or dissertation to get your academic union card;or you are a professional who needs a book to enhance your standing in your field; or you need a book to sell in the back of the room at your seminars.
If you fall into any one of these categories, this book is for you. I was once in the very shoes that you are now wearing, those want-to-do-it-but-don’t know-how shoes. Today, I can tell you that I have written and published fourteen non-fiction books. This is my fifteenth. The sixteenth is already in the on deck circle and ready to come up to bat. Many of my books are currently in print.
I have been published by university presses (University of Georgia Press and the University of Alabama Press), religious presses (Beka Books), major commercial publishers (F & W Books subsidiary, Betterway Publications), top-of-the line independent publishers (Sentient Publications), and I have self-published under my own imprints, Venture Press and Williams & Company, Book Publishers.
I wrote my books while working full time at other jobs: teaching full-time in colleges and universities, creating and editing regional magazines and editing and publishing my own weekly newspaper.
I was able to do this because early on I developed a simple system that made it easy for me to do so. It will make it easy for you, too, and in the next 100 or so pages I share that system with you. The system is simple, and it works.
This is what it will do for you:
- It will focus your attention as it has never been focused before.
- It will mine your every waking moment for creative ideas that you never even dreamed you had.
- It will teach you to collect these creative ideas, effortlessly, for inclusion in your book.
- It will spin out every last ounce of meaning that each of these,ideas contains.
- It will organize your ideas into chapters for transcription into final book form.
All you have to do is empower yourself by following through, precisely, on the seven basic steps that make up my system. This rule holds for the smallest details. If I ask you to use a ball point pen, use one. If I recommend a pocket notebook of a certain size and type, get that notebook. If I ask you to use slips of paper cut to a certain size, don’t ponder it, just do it.
The system is organic. Every part contributes to every other part. As the saying goes, trust me on this one. Just follow the rules, and the rest will take care of itself.
You will be amazed at how intelligent you have suddenly become, at how great ideas begin to leap into your mind unbidden, and how effortlessly you manage to put it all together when you sit down to write.
Copyright 2008 Deena Katrina Frith. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.
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