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Researching and Writing Your Book
Daring Dreamers Meetup Group
Presented By Lionnel Yamentou
www.meetup.com/Daring-Dreamers
What are your goals?
Authority, Expertise and Positioning?
Money?
Fame?
Your publishing options
Traditional or royalty publishing houses
Vanity publishing houses
Self publishing
Benefits of self-publishing
You make the profits
It can be done fast
You are in control
You do the work, you take the risks, you reap the rewards.
What should you write about?
Start with the things that you know. Write about a topic that you have a strong interest in and a good deal of knowledge about.
Different ways to get inspiration and content
Internet
Interviews
Books and magazines
Your own personal journal or stories database
Writing Your Book
Ways to write your book
Write it yourself
Record it and have it transcribed from tape
Use speech recognition software and talk to your computer
Get a professional to ghostwrite your book for you
Ways to organize your book: 25 x 4 x 2 method
Choose 25 major headings you want to incorporate in your book. Use your research and outline. Headings become the chapter titles.
Select 4 sub-headings for each of the 25. These subheadings become the meat of each chapter.
You write 2 pages on each of the sub-topics.
You now have a 200 page book.
Ways to organize your book: 101 Ways to ? method
Major headings are each of the 101 ways to do whatever it is you’ve chose to write about.
Then you brainstorm and write two pages on each of the listed techniques.
You can come up with many subjects that fit into this format
Ways to organize your book: Transcription
Organize a full day workshop on your subject of expertise and have the information recorded on high quality audio.
Have the audio transcribed and the transcript edited.
You now have two possible products, an audio program and a book.
Questions and Answers
This is where you get to talk :)
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