4 things you can do today to get your book going

Stop writing. If you’ve been filling pages, online or off, just stop. Don’t throw it out; it may fit in your book. But that’s not on the critical path to getting your book done. Identify your audience and their pain. If you don’t know to whom you are writing, you are unlikely to have a [...]

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I woke up to a rainbow

Rainbow from my bedroom window

It rained last night. When I awoke around 7:15, the sky was battleship grey. I decided to shut my eyes for a few more minutes. When I opened them again, at about 7:30, the sky was even a bit darker. But there in awesome glory was a rainbow. I sleepily raced for my camera and [...]

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Surprised by people

Your book is going to be read by people. Do you know anything about them? If you say, “Well, whoever is attracted to it will read it,” you are right. But you will attract more of the kind of people that you want to reach if you know something about them. I’ve written about having [...]

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In writing your book, what’s your organizing principle?

Image via Wikipedia One of the most powerful kinds of help you can give your reader is an organizing principle–a way to put together the pieces of what you are trying to teach. More often than not, that will be a metaphor of some kind. What’s a metaphor? One definition is, “An answer to the [...]

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Your book stays

While I help authors of all kinds of books, my main focus is on people who want to enhance their business presence and their client-getting abilities by writing a book. So I want to remind you of some the benefits of having a book to share with prospects: If you write a book, that makes [...]

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