- Find something you care about – not what others think you should write about, including a potential publisher. I spoke to several agents about my?book for Africa.?Here’s what I heard, “No one cares about a white man going to Africa,” “travel memoirs don’t sell,” and “you aren’t an African expert.” Maybe it’s all true, but my trip to Africa meant a lot to me so I did it.?It’s a hard slog, so it should really interest you and pull you into the exercise.??You get to write the book; you don’t have to.?So find something that truly interests you and means something to you. Not only should already know something about the topic but yearn to learn more about it. Most of all, you should really want to share your knowledge/experience with others.
- Write small first. Compiling 50 blog posts into a book is a lot easier than writing a book all at once. Just don’t do it. This process does a few things: 1) gives you an idea of what it’s like to write about this topic and if you truly like it 2) gives you feedback from others as you go and 3) gives you an idea if there is really enough to write a book about. For a 7-80k word book, that’s 7-80 1k word blogs. That’s a lot.
- Outline it.?This is where you realize if you have enough content for the book and in what shape/form you want to display it. That table of contents is a hard process of organization and flow. I’ve outlined about 10 book concepts and I often stop a quarter of the way through it. It’s better to stop during the outline than while writing the third chapter and realize it should be a blog post. Most books can be blog posts – to be honest. Make your book substantial, and rich with information.?
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