According to the New York Times, over 81% of Americans felt they had a book in them.
Want to write a book? Want to write YOUR life story? A family member's? Someone else you know? Want to write a book about something you know a lot about (career, hobby, lifestyle etc)?
My book, "How To Write Your Nonfiction Book" is a guide for the beginning nonfiction book writer. This book deals with: the book idea, title, research, work habits and overcoming obstacles. This how-to book shows you how to get started ... and how to get finished. And it's easy to read and easy to understand!
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Here's some free excerpts ...
Introduction
So you want to write a book? That sounds like a good idea, a great idea, a worthy goal, a dream. Or a fantasy. Thinking about writing a book, dreaming about it – and doing it – are very different. Thinking about it is like singing in the shower. Writing it and putting it out for the world to see is like singing on stage, in front of an audience.
Beginning writers can have stage fright. Feelings of unworthiness, and/or suffer from a lack of experience or know-how. It can be overwhelming. These are normal feelings. Lousy but normal. Feelings which can stop you from writing your book. Don’t let them. Write your book!
How Do You Write A Book?
I've written 22 books. Here's something I learned about writing a book: you write a book one word at a time. Put several words together and you can make a sentence. Several sentences make a paragraph. Paragraphs make up a page. Pages make up a chapter. And chapters make up a book. It’s a process. A manageable process, when you break it down into small, manageable steps. Words. Words become sentences, become paragraphs, becomes chapters - becomes a book. Anyone can write (or say) one or more words at a time. Yes, even you!
Write your book. A book is a living legacy. YOU can have a living legacy - a legacy for your friends, your family, for society, for yourself. Books are forever.
Here are some quotes from famous writers
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” – Robert Benchley
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” — Ray Bradbury
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” —Ernest Hemingway
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” —Richard Bach
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” - Mark Twain
“The first draft of anything is shit.” - Ernest Hemingway
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” - Sharon O'Brien
“What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.” – unknown
“The book's idea or theme or meaning has been stirring about in your consciousness for months and probably years. When the idea first hits you you feel enormously stimulated and heightened. Then you wish you could get away from it, but now nothing but death can separate you from it. It's no use. Now everything else in your life takes second place or fades out of your consciousness altogether. Clothes are unimportant, letters go unanswered for days or even weeks, parties you regard with a lackluster eye, travel is a lure to be avoided like death, for it is ruin to the sustained rhythm of your work day.” – Edna Ferber
“Writing did not save my life... but it has continued to do what it always has done: it makes my life a brighter and more pleasant place. Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.” - Stephen King
Write your book. Get started. "How To Write Your Nonfiction Book" can help you do that!
If you are thinking about writing a nonfiction book (or know someone who is), this book will motivate and stimulate you - and instruct you on how to write YOUR nonfiction book! It's available in paperback, on amazon
price: $6.99
