Tips on Writing a Book Now

Tips on Writing a
Book Now

Here's a string of tips on
writing a book. They're
brief, succinct and very
useful. These tips on
writing a book have been
designed to get you up
and writing your book as
quickly as possible.
They'll help you start
writing, continue writing
and finish writing your
book. Your manuscript
will be ready for the
agent, or the publisher,
or on its way to self
publishing success.
Here are your tips on
writing a book:
You can't start writing
your book and continue
writing until the book
has been written. It's too
big a job. It's going to
take you a few days.
Probably a couple of
weeks.
People take years to
write their book because
they go at the task
sporadically. You've got
to write every day. If you
don't, you find yourself
having written nothing
for months at a time.
Your book writing
success or failure
depends largely on the
outlining process. Create
an outstanding outline
for your book and you're
writing task becomes
easy. You should know
exactly what happens on
every page before you
start writing your first
word.
If you think you can write
your book by being
spontaneously creative
as you write, you're
wrong. You're welcome
to try, just about every
novice author does. But
I'd bet money it won't
work for you. Create the
exhaustive outline.
Your outline should
consist of a series of
questions: What does the
library look like, how is
she dressed, why does he
feel so angry, what does
she do when she reaches
the house. It's simply
easier to write in
response to a question
than it is to write in
response to a statement.
Spend a short time
writing to answer each
question. Just a few
minutes. You don't want
this to become a
protracted bunch of puff.
You want real story.
Don't stop until the book
is finished. There's a real
tendency to stop and
edit the work that you've
just completed. After all,
editing is a lot easier to
do than the actual
writing. So you can feel
that you're still working,
but it won't be as
difficult. Don't do it!
Keep writing until the
book is finished.
Give yourself a period for
writing and stick to that
amount of time come
hell or high water. Even
if it's just 15 minutes a
day. Initially you're just
going for the discipline.
Eventually you'll get the
writing quality as well,
but the discipline is most
important factor for the
completion of your work
in the shortest amount of
time possible.
Doing research for your
book writing can be fun.
But don't do it until after
the book is written. If
you come to a point
where you've got to get
a piece of information
that you don't have in
you head, just put down
an asterisk and keep the
flow of the book going.
After the manuscript is
finished, you can look
back for all those
asterisks and get just the
information you need.

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