Why You Should Learn How to Write Books (And How to Do It)

Believers have the best kept secret on earth? We must have, no one talks about it!

Why should you write a book or your story of "how you came to Christ?" Because each of us in the body of Christ is a walking miracle and each of us has a story to tell. We all need to publish our stories and get it out there for all to see. Why? It does two things; First it praises Jesus for what He did for us and secondly each one of us has a solution to bring peace on earth and good will to all on earth, with standing with each other and telling our story as an individual.

You see the enemy "doesn't want us to walk together and tell our story!" Why? To defeat us. Every time we tell our story or our story gets in someone's hands it lights an area that was once reserved for darkness. Think of it by not standing together and not sharing our testimony we are actually doing what Satan wants us to do. After all, is God not encouraging you to stand with the rest of the body or share your testimony? Of course not.

We actually have the ability to turn things around on earth, but it is going to take each of us standing with one another in our calling and purpose and simply passing along our testimony of what Jesus has done for us. Someone out there is waiting to hear from you. Yes there are other reasons to become published, like perhaps making and income from writing, but the biggest reason is to have a chance to turn things around. We can do all things through Christ. Either that is true or it isn't, but if it is not then many things in scripture are not true either. Ok, the next thing to slide in our minds is "something about God's will." It doesn't say "we can do all things through Christ if it is God's will. It says, we can do all things through Christ and we should if we have the heart for God, to pass our testimony along. We should also want to see starvation and homelessness be dealt with. Those things are all a part of God's will and we all need to be walking in His will.

You can easily learn how to write professional full-length novels, nonfiction books and e-books in a fraction of the usual time, without compromising on quality, quantity or your artistic integrity. In fact the words in your book will be exactly the same, whether you spend two weeks or two years writing them. Here are 12 reasons why you should learn the fastest ways to write good books. At the end of the article I'll tell you how you can learn to do it.

1. You can fill a gap in the market as soon as you spot it, and beat your competitors into print

In a case like this, time really matters. The first book to reach the market is usually the one that dominates it, and if you can write your book in days or weeks while everyone else takes months, you'll have the market to yourself for a very long time. Not only will yours be the only book available, it'll have plenty of time to establish itself as the "industry standard".

2. You can latch onto current trends before they go out of fashion

If you start writing about something that's in fashion now but you take a year to finish it, by the time your book is ready the market will have moved on and you'll have missed out. Once again, time really matters - you need to hit the market while it's still growing or at its peak, not when it's waning. You can also write books about forthcoming events and have them on sale in plenty of time.

3. You can make a lot of money in a short time

This is especially true of e-books. You can quickly write a ton of e-books and sell them via your website. Or make them available on ClickBank.com where thousands of people are looking for great products to sell on your behalf. And the great thing about e-books is they cost you nothing!

4. You can produce a lifetime's work in a couple of years

The average writer takes an entire lifetime to write one shelf of books, and most don't even manage that many. They soon come to realize that one lifetime just isn't long enough to write all the books they have plans and ideas for. Frustrating isn't it! But if you knew how to write books ten times faster, that wouldn't be a problem. (You still won't run out of ideas though!)

5. You can fit your writing around your busy lifestyle and reclaim your freedom

Many writers shut themselves away from their friends and family for months at a time and give up much of their social lives completely. (I've done it myself.) While everyone else is out enjoying themselves, the poor writer stays at home and slaves over a hot computer*. And they only write one book a year. By learning the fastest ways to write your book you won't need to shut yourself away at all. You can reclaim your social life, rediscover your friends, and still write several books each year.

(*By the way your computer will run a lot cooler - and often less noisily - if you clear the dust from the air vents and fan once a year.)

6. Freedom from guilt

Are you missing out on quality time with your children or other members of your family? Did you miss your child's first steps or first words because you'd shut yourself away to write? Do you feel guilty about not being able to spend as much time with them as you should? Do they ask you to read to them or help with their homework, but you're too busy writing? If you knew a much faster way to write your books you could start putting things right before it's too late.

7. You're never too busy to write a book

You can easily find enough time to write several books a year if you go about it in the right way, no matter how busy you life is. Seriously. You don't need to make any drastic changes to your lifestyle, and any small changes will only last a few weeks at most until you've finished your book. For example you can cut down on the cleaning, record TV shows, save up your newspapers and magazines, and skip a couple of gym sessions. Catch up with it all when your book is done.

8. Massively increased chance of getting published - or becoming a bestseller

Some of your books will undoubtedly sell much better than others. Some might not do very well at all. But if they only took a few days or weeks to write it really doesn't matter - it's not as if you slaved over your book for a year or more only to have it flop. You'll write plenty of others that will more than make up for it, and perhaps even have a couple of bestsellers. With all those books on the market you're vastly increasing the chances that one or more of them will hit the big time. If you haven't yet found a publisher, all those books circulating between publishers and agents will also increase your chances of being discovered and accepted. And of course you'll be adding more and more books to those in circulation as you write them, which will certainly get their attention! Even if you don't find a publisher, you can always publish them yourself or turn them into e-books.

9. Increased rate of learning

As any writing tutor will tell you, the more you write the better you become. You'll get there a lot sooner if you learned how to write your books ten times faster.

10. Readers will buy more of what you write

Each book acts as a sales tool for the others. If you have two books on sale, you double your market exposure - someone who comes across one of your books might well buy the other one too. (This is why publishers like signing up authors for multi-book deals.) But what if you had ten or twenty books out there? Or more? Readers will be far more likely to discover you, and many of them will buy several of your books, if not the complete set. If you don't know how to write books quickly then writing this many books could take you a lifetime. But if you know the secrets you could easily have the whole lot written and on sale within a year or two.

11. Writing quickly buys you the freedom to write slowly!

Many writers enjoy the luxury of taking their time over their books. They like to let their characters find their own way without following any kind of outline, and if things don't work out they can scrap it and backtrack. They like to tinker endlessly with the text, rewrite it over and over, spend days finding the perfect word or phrase, try out different writing styles, and so on. But this really is a luxury, and something you can only do if you have another source of income. If you want to write like that, my suggestion would be to learn how to write books quickly, get several books out in the marketplace earning you money, and then use that money to fund your more leisurely writing.

12. There's no time to get bored

Thousands of people start writing a book each year, but most never finish it -or even get close to finishing. Why? Simply because it takes so long that they get bored with it and want their social lives back. The story might actually be an excellent one, the writing insightful and the characters compelling. But the world will never know. If they knew about the fast way to write their books, they'd get their books finished, they'd enjoy writing them, and there wouldn't be time to get bored - and they might even write some more!

 

Ebooks The Process:

"E-Book" is short for Electronic Book---an organized set of content delivered in an electronic format. There are many different types of e-books including packaged executables, PDF, and formats for the handheld computer.

As with so many of the original e-books, your e-book doesn't have to be about Making Money or Internet Marketing---people are interested in many other things. What makes an e-book valuable to a wide audience is that it provides information that people cannot easily find elsewhere.

Over the years, I've had the pleasure of writing numerous printed books and working on several electronic publications. From what I've seen, the e-book medium supports the greatest creative flexibility. Images can come alive, you can provide interactive forms and content, the user can access remote databases, and you can support dynamic updates whenever the content changes. There are, however, several steps involved in the process to properly develop and promote an e-book to your audience.

The Process

When developing an e-book, you have to perform several important steps to create quality content. Each step allows you to fine-tune your idea and the end-product so that readers will learn from and enjoy the content you provide.

- Brainstorm an Idea

Ideas are cheap, but good ideas take time to develop. To develop a good idea, you have to jot down as many ideas as possible, then go through the list to make sure that:

* you're interested in the idea;

* you're knowledgeable on the topic;

* you're hitting the greatest, potential market;

* people will purchase the information; and

* you can market to those interested.

Once you reduce the list to a few solid choices, go back through and examine the remaining topics to determine which topics you can write, by:

* determining what you know about the topic;

* performing market research to ensure that you have a market and an angle for that market; and

* performing competitive research to find your competition's products, successes, failures, and target markets.

While fine-tuning your product, remember that people will buy the product if it:

* solves a problem;

* improves an existing product;

* hits on a hot trend;

* creates a new niche; or

* fills a current need.

- Develop an Outline

Once you come up with the idea, you'll have to create an outline or table of contents to develop the idea. The best way I've found to do this is to break the idea down into blocks of contiguous information---similar to assembling a pyramid. At the top is the IDEA with each successive level providing a more detailed sequence of points that ultimately explain the top-level IDEA.

The outline itself should be at least four levels deep so that you can understand what you'll say for each section or chapter. Research each section and collect pertinent information so that you can develop a coherent outline and understand the depths of what it is you are writing.

- Develop the First Draft

The first draft is merely a "brain dump." Follow your outline and write as much as possible about each section. Don't worry about format, spelling, or grammar at this point, as you'll focus on resolving those issues later.

- Substantive Edit

A substantive edit is a review of the manuscript where you fine-tune the content. You have to make sure that the content is complete, contains pertinent information for the topic, and provides enough relevant information to explain the topic. At this point, you can perform additional research to verify the content or enhance the information for the reader.

- Content/Technical Review

Find some experts in your manuscript's topic area and have them review it for accuracy and readability. This type of review ensures that the information is correct and that the target audience will be able to understand the content. Many times, experts will take credit in the acknowledgements as opposed to a fee, but this is something you'll have to work out with them.

- Second Draft

The second draft takes into account the information from your reviewers as well as changes you need to make based on your own review of the content. Once this draft is complete, take a day or two off to give your brain a break. This way, when you return to the manuscript, you'll be fresh and able to catch any mistakes that you would've otherwise missed.

- Copy Edit

The copy edit allows you to check the grammar, spelling, and readability of the content. Make sure that everything is formatted appropriately and that your manuscript provides a professional presentation.