Outline Insight (Part 1.5)

Last Friday, I shared some insight about outlines and immediately got a request for more info . . . What questions specifically do you answer?

Great question and here are the three categories of questions I include in my outline:

1. What questions are people already asking? Your readers are smart—they already use common sense to ask you questions about your area of expertise. They need the answers to these questions to achieve even a modicum of success.
2. What questions should they be asking? The next set of questions tackle areas of your expertise most people wouldn't know to ask. To get great results, they would benefit from knowing the answers to those questions, too.
3. What questions do I wish they would ask? What do you know now that you wish you knew when you first started? Said another way, what's the reason you make the big bucks? The "inside baseball" your readers would be extra grateful you shared? Your readers don't know what they don't know, and you can tell them a lot in your book!

Those will help you to craft an outline that will help you write a solid book. There's more in this book (including a tried-and-true process to follow), the Write Your First Nonfiction Book Course is robust and coming soon (it's available for pre-order right now at 50% off!). Plus there's more coming tomorrow. See you then.

Note: I plan to almost always release a book and a companion and a course now—this is what I affectionately refer to as the "3-Legged Stool" and once you have your outline, you're poised to put all three of these in place (read: more income streams)! Check out this video and learn all about it!