By “juice,” I mean “emotional content.” Life is juicy, love is juicy, and you can think of negative juicy stuff on your own. Your book must be juicy if you want it to be read, and if you want your readers to take action, or at least remember what you wrote. Thinking is dry. Concepts [...]
April 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What’s your book-writing motivation?
Is it internal or external? Internal: Do you want to write a book to express yourself? Do you feel you have a story to tell, something to teach, something to record? Those are great reasons for writing a book, and my BookProgram method–described in my free book, which you can get by clicking on the [...]
April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Use my approach to book-writing to create a course
I have been teaching that if you write a book following my method, (a) you’ll have a good book, quickly; and (b), you’ll be very well-positioned to start creating additional information products based on the stuff you’ve generated to write the book. It’s time to be a bit more explicit. First of all, if you [...]
April 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If structure must precede content, how do you get your structure together?
A discussion I had with my wife after posting yesterday’s blog entry made me think about how I teach people to write books. I’ll try to lay it out for you in brief here, so that you can see if this fits your thoughts. My market for my book-writing products and services has been, to [...]
April 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
How NOT to write a book–I think…
BoingBoing.net often has really interesting pieces on a wide variety of topics. I ran across this 1/2009 post from Steven Johnson that is illuminating (how one really good writer writes), Image via Wikipedia thought-provoking (what a wide range of interests), and befuddling (how in the world does a coherent book emerge from such a chaotic [...]
April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Check out our new Author Forum!
In the menu bar at the top of the blog, there is a new tab: “Forum.” Come check it out! Post your questions, comments, thoughts. Warmly, Joel