So you've decided to write your first eBook? Good for you. You'll find that eBooks are a great way to get your name out there. They'll help you to establish your credibility. They'll help you to gain traffic. And they're a great way to make some money too!
But writing your first eBook can be scary!
After all, there's a lot of work involved in writing an eBook. And you really can't be sure that it will be successful. Not to mention the fact that many people question their ability to write.
Here are seven tips to help you when writing your first eBook.
1. Why are you writing?
There are many reasons to write eBooks (or books or digital books for that matter). The reasons you have for writing your eBook will affect many things about that book. So you need to know why before you can decide what.
2. Start with the audience.
Whatever your reasons for writing your eBook, there's no point to it until someone reads your eBook. You need to focus your book on your audience and what they need to hear. To do that means you need to know who your audience will be and why they are going to want to read your eBook.
3. Solve a problem or be a guide.
It's been said that you can't motivate someone else. But what you can do is make them motivate themselves to do what you want. In the case of a book, that means you need to provide them with a solution to an immediate problem. Or you need to show them how to avoid a future pain. Or you need to show them how to achieve a future desire.
4. Use someone else's eyes.
It may be tempting to edit your own eBook. Especially with the automated tools that are available today. In fact, you will find that you need to do so. But you also need to use a third party to check your book for errors. We all have a tendency to see what we think is there rather than what is really there. Another set of eyes will help find mistakes that you are not seeing.
5. People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
In the case of writing this translates to creating a detailed plan of your eBook. Also called a paragraph by paragraph outline. Writing non-fiction is not like writing fiction. You absolutely must have a detailed outline.
6. Do a freebie first.
It's always easier to do something that you've already done once. That goes for writing eBooks too. So set yourself up for success and keep your first eBook short. Freemium type eBooks are now in the forty page range. Long enough to make you realize you can write a full book. But short enough that you can do it in less than twenty-four hours of work.
7. Play to your motivations.
Just as your audience needs to be motivated to read your book, you need to be motivated to write your book. Can't find the time? Chances are you're not motivated enough or you would find the time. Find yourself avoiding writing? You're not motivated enough to force yourself to write. So figure out what motivates you and then arrange for that motivation to be part of your writing ritual.
But writing your first eBook can be scary!
After all, there's a lot of work involved in writing an eBook. And you really can't be sure that it will be successful. Not to mention the fact that many people question their ability to write.
Here are seven tips to help you when writing your first eBook.
1. Why are you writing?
There are many reasons to write eBooks (or books or digital books for that matter). The reasons you have for writing your eBook will affect many things about that book. So you need to know why before you can decide what.
2. Start with the audience.
Whatever your reasons for writing your eBook, there's no point to it until someone reads your eBook. You need to focus your book on your audience and what they need to hear. To do that means you need to know who your audience will be and why they are going to want to read your eBook.
3. Solve a problem or be a guide.
It's been said that you can't motivate someone else. But what you can do is make them motivate themselves to do what you want. In the case of a book, that means you need to provide them with a solution to an immediate problem. Or you need to show them how to avoid a future pain. Or you need to show them how to achieve a future desire.
4. Use someone else's eyes.
It may be tempting to edit your own eBook. Especially with the automated tools that are available today. In fact, you will find that you need to do so. But you also need to use a third party to check your book for errors. We all have a tendency to see what we think is there rather than what is really there. Another set of eyes will help find mistakes that you are not seeing.
5. People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
In the case of writing this translates to creating a detailed plan of your eBook. Also called a paragraph by paragraph outline. Writing non-fiction is not like writing fiction. You absolutely must have a detailed outline.
6. Do a freebie first.
It's always easier to do something that you've already done once. That goes for writing eBooks too. So set yourself up for success and keep your first eBook short. Freemium type eBooks are now in the forty page range. Long enough to make you realize you can write a full book. But short enough that you can do it in less than twenty-four hours of work.
7. Play to your motivations.
Just as your audience needs to be motivated to read your book, you need to be motivated to write your book. Can't find the time? Chances are you're not motivated enough or you would find the time. Find yourself avoiding writing? You're not motivated enough to force yourself to write. So figure out what motivates you and then arrange for that motivation to be part of your writing ritual.
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