y now. Each thing is on a separate line with several lines in between them. All you need to do is fill in those blank lines between each thing you wanted to say. Those are the details. For example, if your first line was the history of dachshunds, then your detail lines would be something like, Came from Europe, Used for hunting, Hunting ferrets, used by royalty, brought to US in 1813, good natured dogs, loyal, protective, weak backs.

Now, you see that some of those things don’t fit under the history of dachshunds, do they? Weed those out and put them under another main topic. Keep doing that until you have 8-10 things under each topic. Anytime you need to refresh your ideas, go back to the resource file or do the Kumar thing again. See why those things are so important now?

Ideally, you want to end up with about 10-20 main topics with about 10 sub-topics below each one. Do you see what you’re doing here? You’re actually writing the book!

Each of those main topics will probably end up being a chapter. The points below them will be the individual paragraphs in that chapter.

One last thing before we call it quits for tonight. You have quite a few main topics there. You need to get them in some kind of logical order so the reader…your reader… won’t feel like you’re jumping around all over the place. The absolute BEST way to do that is to read the topics out loud! See if the way you have them ordered makes sense to you when you’re talking them. Pretend you’re talking to your beloved Uncle Gus. Read him the topics and see what he thinks…he’ll let you know!

Can you see this e-book thing starting to come together? Can you see how close you ar

Well…today’s the day you actually start writing! Now’s a good time…before you get all involved in the writing…to think back and see what we’ve covered since day one. You’ve covered a lot of stuff…learned some techniques that were new to you…and, probably were a little strange to you as well!

You may be getting tired of all of the review we do at the beginning of each chapter. I’m doing that for a very good reason! What you’re really trying to learn here is the process…the process of how to write a book! Sure, this time around I’m sort of holding your hand through that process, but the next time, you’ll be on your own.

It’s sort of like when you were first learning to drive. You had to concentrate on each step as you took it. Put your foot on the brake, put it in reverse, check and see if anything’s behind you…you remember having to think about all of that. After a while, you just jumped in the car and took off! That’s what I want you to be able to do when you start your next book.

So, up to this point, we’ve talked about what you think about your writing ability…and given you some powerful reasons to think more highly of it. I’ve also given you an exceptional tool to grab ideas out of your sub-conscious and get them on paper where you can work with them and make them come to life. You’ve learned ways to work in niches, to find out if your ideas are profitable, and to start filling your head with the first thoughts of your new e-book. Man! That’s a lot in just 30 pages. Now it all starts to pay off…it’s time to write! Let’s get going!

First of all, wipe that sweat off your forehead, wipe those sweaty palms on your jeans and stop feeling that knot in your stomach! This is going to be a lot better…and easier than you think it is. Remember that “stinkin’ thinkin’” thing and look up at the side of your computer monitor and see that piece of paper with those promises you made yourself back a few days ago. Relax! This is gonna be fun!

First of all, let’s think up a catchy title for your new book. Grab that legal pad…and pen! For the rest of this book, we’re going to say that your book will be about diets for dachshunds. Whatever your topic is, write it down at the top of a blank yellow pad page…right in the middle…and in BIG LETTERS.

DIETS FOR DACHSHUNDS

Although that phrase alone may be a good title for a book, we’re looking for a title that will make people want to read this book…not even want to…HAVE to read this book!

The best way to do that is to insert some other words in there to grab their attention. Words like, delicious, easy-to-do, cheap, healthy, …can all go before the word diets. Words like your darling, your fat, overweight, older, …can go in front of dachshund. Here’s what you need to do.

Right below that big topic title write a list of descriptive words that will work with your topic…make it at least 10 words long. Then, right below the big lettered topic, start writing the new titles.

Delicious Diets For Your Darling Dachshund…Easy-To-Do Diets For Your Fat Dachshund…Healthy Diets For Your Older Dachshund…and so on.

Do that with your title. Have some fun with it. You probably will come up with some really funny ones, and some really smelly ones! Doesn’t matter. Just put them down on paper till you’ve used all of your words.

Now, sit back and read each of them out loud! One or two of them will really sound good…really sound like the title of a book that you’d probably buy. Those are the ones to work with. All you have to do now is pick your favorite and you’ve just come up with the title for your first book!

Here’s a little trick that always gets me really going when I’m first starting a book. It may work for you as well.

Go to Google and type in your topic…dachshund, in our example book. Then, click on the “Images” link right above the search box. You’ll find all kinds of pictures of dachshunds. Take a few minutes and pick one that really catches your eye. You have to know right here that you probably won’t be able to use that exact picture for your book cover since it probably is copyrighted…I’ll tell you a couple of places to get some great pictures that are copyright free here in a minute…but just having a picture helps this process along tremendously! Leave it up on your screen and continue.

Your next step is to start an outline. How do you do that? Well, the best way to show you is to refer you to the Table Of Contents for this book. Just click on the link and you’ll be taken there.

That’s what we want to end up with…a list of chapters.

But for now, we need an outline before we get it in that shape. The first shape your outline will take is just a list of everything you want to tell me about diets for dachshunds. Do you want to tell me a little history of dachshunds? Do you want to tell me how many dachshunds are registered in the US? Do you want to tell me about the different kinds of dachshunds? How about health problems that dachshund routinely suffer from?

Just write down everything you can think of to tell me about dachshunds right there on your legal pad. Put each thing on a separate line and leave a few…3-4…lines between them. We’ll fill those spaces in momentarily. Don’t edit yourself here! Just write everything down for now!

If you look at my Table Of Contents, you’ll see that I ended up with 10 chapters. (There’s more there, but I always use an introduction, a summary chapter, and a resource chapter in every book. We’ll cover that tomorrow in greater depth.) What you don’t see there is that my list of things I wanted to say was about 30 lines long rather than 10. So, keep writing! Don’t try to put anything in order right now. Just throw all of your ideas down on the page.

You should be able to come up with 20-40 things you want to say about dachshunds. If you don’t have that many, go back to your resource file and read some more. Try to get at least 20 lines filled up on that legal pad. This will take you some time, so I’ll go get a Pepsi while you’re happily writing. I TOLD you this wasn’t going to be so bad, now, didn’t I?

That wasn’t so hard…he said between chugs of Pepsi…now was it? You’d done your research, you’d read about your topic, you’d read articles on the topic, you’d visited forums that talk about the topic…there was a LOT of stuff in your brain that you didn’t even know was there!

If you’re REALLY smart and really want to have a great first book, you’ll use the Kumar method on your list of things you want to tell me to see if there is anything in your sub-conscious that needs to be added to the list. You might just be surprised here!

Okay, you’ve got a page full of things to say now. Each thing is on a separate line with several lines in between them. All you need to do is fill in those blank lines between each thing you wanted to say. Those are the details. For example, if your first line was the history of dachshunds, then your detail lines would be something like, Came from Europe, Used for hunting, Hunting ferrets, used by royalty, brought to US in 1813, good natured dogs, loyal, protective, weak backs.

Now, you see that some of those things don’t fit under the history of dachshunds, do they? Weed those out and put them under another main topic. Keep doing that until you have 8-10 things under each topic. Anytime you need to refresh your ideas, go back to the resource file or do the Kumar thing again. See why those things are so important now?

Ideally, you want to end up with about 10-20 main topics with about 10 sub-topics below each one. Do you see what you’re doing here? You’re actually writing the book!

Each of those main topics will probably end up being a chapter. The points below them will be the individual paragraphs in that chapter.

One last thing before we call it quits for tonight. You have quite a few main topics there. You need to get them in some kind of logical order so the reader…your reader… won’t feel like you’re jumping around all over the place. The absolute BEST way to do that is to read the topics out loud! See if the way you have them ordered makes sense to you when you’re talking them. Pretend you’re talking to your beloved Uncle Gus. Read him the topics and see what he thinks…he’ll let you know!

Can you see this e-book thing starting to come together? Can you see how close you are

t in your stomach! This is going to be a lot better…and easier than you think it is. Remember that “stinkin’ thinkin’” thing and look up at the side of your computer monitor and see that piece of paper with those promises you made yourself back a few days ago. Relax! This is gonna be fun!

First of all, let’s think up a catchy title for your new book. Grab that legal pad…and pen! For the rest of this book, we’re going to say that your book will be about diets for dachshunds. Whatever your topic is, write it down at the top of a blank yellow pad page…right in the middle…and in BIG LETTERS.

DIETS FOR DACHSHUNDS

Although that phrase alone may be a good title for a book, we’re looking for a title that will make people want to read this book…not even want to…HAVE to read this book!

The best way to do that is to insert some other words in there to grab their attention. Words like, delicious, easy-to-do, cheap, healthy, …can all go before the word diets. Words like your darling, your fat, overweight, older, …can go in front of dachshund. Here’s what you need to do.

Right below that big topic title write a list of descriptive words that will work with your topic…make it at least 10 words long. Then, right below the big lettered topic, start writing the new titles.

Delicious Diets For Your Darling Dachshund…Easy-To-Do Diets For Your Fat Dachshund…Healthy Diets For Your Older Dachshund…and so on.

Do that with your title. Have some fun with it. You probably will come up with some really funny ones, and some really smelly ones! Doesn’t matter. Just put them down on paper till you’ve used all of your words.

Now, sit back and read each of them out loud! One or two of them will really sound good…really sound like the title of a book that you’d probably buy. Those are the ones to work with. All you have to do now is pick your favorite and you’ve just come up with the title for your first book!

Here’s a little trick that always gets me really going when I’m first starting a book. It may work for you as well.

Go to Google and type in your topic…dachshund, in our example book. Then, click on the “Images” link right above the search box. You’ll find all kinds of pictures of dachshunds. Take a few minutes and pick one that really catches your eye. You have to know right here that you probably won’t be able to use that exact picture for your book cover since it probably is copyrighted…I’ll tell you a couple of places to get some great pictures that are copyright free here in a minute…but just having a picture helps this process along tremendously! Leave it up on your screen and continue.

Your next step is to start an outline. How do you do that? Well, the best way to show you is to refer you to the Table Of Contents for this book. Just click on the link and you’ll be taken there.

That’s what we want to end up with…a list of chapters.

But for now, we need an outline before we get it in that shape. The first shape your outline will take is just a list of everything you want to tell me about diets for dachshunds. Do you want to tell me a little history of dachshunds? Do you want to tell me how many dachshunds are registered in the US? Do you want to tell me about the different kinds of dachshunds? How about health problems that dachshund routinely suffer from?

Just write down everything you can think of to tell me about dachshunds right there on your legal pad. Put each thing on a separate line and leave a few…3-4…lines between them. We’ll fill those spaces in momentarily. Don’t edit yourself here! Just write everything down for now!

If you look at my Table Of Contents, you’ll see that I ended up with 10 chapters. (There’s more there, but I always use an introduction, a summary chapter, and a resource chapter in every book. We’ll cover that tomorrow in greater depth.) What you don’t see there is that my list of things I wanted to say was about 30 lines long rather than 10. So, keep writing! Don’t try to put anything in order right now. Just throw all of your ideas down on the page.

You should be able to come up with 20-40 things you want to say about dachshunds. If you don’t have that many, go back to your resource file and read some more. Try to get at least 20 lines filled up on that legal pad. This will take you some time, so I’ll go get a Pepsi while you’re happily writing. I TOLD you this wasn’t going to be so bad, now, didn’t I?

That wasn’t so hard…he said between chugs of Pepsi…now was it? You’d done your research, you’d read about your topic, you’d read articles on the topic, you’d visited forums that talk about the topic…there was a LOT of stuff in your brain that you didn’t even know was there!

If you’re REALLY smart and really want to have a great first book, you’ll use the Kumar method on your list of things you want to tell me to see if there is anything in your sub-conscious that needs to be added to the list. You might just be surprised here!

Okay, you’ve got a page full of things to say now. Each thing is on a separate line with several lines in between them. All you need to do is fill in those blank lines between each thing you wanted to say. Those are the details. For example, if your first line was the history of dachshunds, then your detail lines would be something like, Came from Europe, Used for hunting, Hunting ferrets, used by royalty, brought to US in 1813, good natured dogs, loyal, protective, weak backs.

Now, you see that some of those things don’t fit under the history of dachshunds, do they? Weed those out and put them under another main topic. Keep doing that until you have 8-10 things under each topic. Anytime you need to refresh your ideas, go back to the resource file or do the Kumar thing again. See why those things are so important now?

Ideally, you want to end up with about 10-20 main topics with about 10 sub-topics below each one. Do you see what you’re doing here? You’re actually writing the book!

Each of those main topics will probably end up being a chapter. The points below them will be the individual paragraphs in that chapter.

One last thing before we call it quits for tonight. You have quite a few main topics there. You need to get them in some kind of logical order so the reader…your reader… won’t feel like you’re jumping around all over the place. The absolute BEST way to do that is to read the topics out loud! See if the way you have them ordered makes sense to you when you’re talking them. Pretend you’re talking to your beloved Uncle Gus. Read him the topics and see what he thinks…he’ll let you know!

Can you see this e-book thing starting to come together? Can you see how close you ar

h of them out loud! One or two of them will really sound good…really sound like the title of a book that you’d probably buy. Those are the ones to work with. All you have to do now is pick your favorite and you’ve just come up with the title for your first book!

Here’s a little trick that always gets me really going when I’m first starting a book. It may work for you as well.

Go to Google and type in your topic…dachshund, in our example book. Then, click on the “Images” link right above the search box. You’ll find all kinds of pictures of dachshunds. Take a few minutes and pick one that really catches your eye. You have to know right here that you probably won’t be able to use that exact picture for your book cover since it probably is copyrighted…I’ll tell you a couple of places to get some great pictures that are copyright free here in a minute…but just having a picture helps this process along tremendously! Leave it up on your screen and continue.

Your next step is to start an outline. How do you do that? Well, the best way to show you is to refer you to the Table Of Contents for this book. Just click on the link and you’ll be taken there.

That’s what we want to end up with…a list of chapters.

But for now, we need an outline before we get it in that shape. The first shape your outline will take is just a list of everything you want to tell me about diets for dachshunds. Do you want to tell me a little history of dachshunds? Do you want to tell me how many dachshunds are registered in the US? Do you want to tell me about the different kinds of dachshunds? How about health problems that dachshund routinely suffer from?

Just write down everything you can think of to tell me about dachshunds right there on your legal pad. Put each thing on a separate line and leave a few…3-4…lines between them. We’ll fill those spaces in momentarily. Don’t edit yourself here! Just write everything down for now!

If you look at my Table Of Contents, you’ll see that I ended up with 10 chapters. (There’s more there, but I always use an introduction, a summary chapter, and a resource chapter in every book. We’ll cover that tomorrow in greater depth.) What you don’t see there is that my list of things I wanted to say was about 30 lines long rather than 10. So, keep writing! Don’t try to put anything in order right now. Just throw all of your ideas down on the page.

You should be able to come up with 20-40 things you want to say about dachshunds. If you don’t have that many, go back to your resource file and read some more. Try to get at least 20 lines filled up on that legal pad. This will take you some time, so I’ll go get a Pepsi while you’re happily writing. I TOLD you this wasn’t going to be so bad, now, didn’t I?

That wasn’t so hard…he said between chugs of Pepsi…now was it? You’d done your research, you’d read about your topic, you’d read articles on the topic, you’d visited forums that talk about the topic…there was a LOT of stuff in your brain that you didn’t even know was there!

If you’re REALLY smart and really want to have a great first book, you’ll use the Kumar method on your list of things you want to tell me to see if there is anything in your sub-conscious that needs to be added to the list. You might just be surprised here!

Okay, you’ve got a page full of things to say now. Each thing is on a separate line with several lines in between them. All you need to do is fill in those blank lines between each thing you wanted to say. Those are the details. For example, if your first line was the history of dachshunds, then your detail lines would be something like, Came from Europe, Used for hunting, Hunting ferrets, used by royalty, brought to US in 1813, good natured dogs, loyal, protective, weak backs.

Now, you see that some of those things don’t fit under the history of dachshunds, do they? Weed those out and put them under another main topic. Keep doing that until you have 8-10 things under each topic. Anytime you need to refresh your ideas, go back to the resource file or do the Kumar thing again. See why those things are so important now?

Ideally, you want to end up with about 10-20 main topics with about 10 sub-topics below each one. Do you see what you’re doing here? You’re actually writing the book!

Each of those main topics will probably end up being a chapter. The points below them will be the individual paragraphs in that chapter.

One last thing before we call it quits for tonight. You have quite a few main topics there. You need to get them in some kind of logical order so the reader…your reader… won’t feel like you’re jumping around all over the place. The absolute BEST way to do that is to read the topics out loud! See if the way you have them ordered makes sense to you when you’re talking them. Pretend you’re talking to your beloved Uncle Gus. Read him the topics and see what he thinks…he’ll let you know!

Can you see this e-book thing starting to come together? Can you see how close you ar

te down everything you can think of to tell me about dachshunds right there on your legal pad. Put each thing on a separate line and leave a few…3-4…lines between them. We’ll fill those spaces in momentarily. Don’t edit yourself here! Just write everything down for now!

If you look at my Table Of Contents, you’ll see that I ended up with 10 chapters. (There’s more there, but I always use an introduction, a summary chapter, and a resource chapter in every book. We’ll cover that tomorrow in greater depth.) What you don’t see there is that my list of things I wanted to say was about 30 lines long rather than 10. So, keep writing! Don’t try to put anything in order right now. Just throw all of your ideas down on the page.

You should be able to come up with 20-40 things you want to say about dachshunds. If you don’t have that many, go back to your resource file and read some more. Try to get at least 20 lines filled up on that legal pad. This will take you some time, so I’ll go get a Pepsi while you’re happily writing. I TOLD you this wasn’t going to be so bad, now, didn’t I?

That wasn’t so hard…he said between chugs of Pepsi…now was it? You’d done your research, you’d read about your topic, you’d read articles on the topic, you’d visited forums that talk about the topic…there was a LOT of stuff in your brain that you didn’t even know was there!

If you’re REALLY smart and really want to have a great first book, you’ll use the Kumar method on your list of things you want to tell me to see if there is anything in your sub-conscious that needs to be added to the list. You might just be surprised here!

Okay, you’ve got a page full of things to say now. Each thing is on a separate line with several lines in between them. All you need to do is fill in those blank lines between each thing you wanted to say. Those are the details. For example, if your first line was the history of dachshunds, then your detail lines would be something like, Came from Europe, Used for hunting, Hunting ferrets, used by royalty, brought to US in 1813, good natured dogs, loyal, protective, weak backs.

Now, you see that some of those things don’t fit under the history of dachshunds, do they? Weed those out and put them under another main topic. Keep doing that until you have 8-10 things under each topic. Anytime you need to refresh your ideas, go back to the resource file or do the Kumar thing again. See why those things are so important now?

Ideally, you want to end up with about 10-20 main topics with about 10 sub-topics below each one. Do you see what you’re doing here? You’re actually writing the book!

Each of those main topics will probably end up being a chapter. The points below them will be the individual paragraphs in that chapter.

One last thing before we call it quits for tonight. You have quite a few main topics there. You need to get them in some kind of logical order so the reader…your reader… won’t feel like you’re jumping around all over the place. The absolute BEST way to do that is to read the topics out loud! See if the way you have them ordered makes sense to you when you’re talking them. Pretend you’re talking to your beloved Uncle Gus. Read him the topics and see what he thinks…he’ll let you know!

Can you see this e-book thing starting to come together? Can you see how close you ar

y now. Each thing is on a separate line with several lines in between them. All you need to do is fill in those blank lines between each thing you wanted to say. Those are the details. For example, if your first line was the history of dachshunds, then your detail lines would be something like, Came from Europe, Used for hunting, Hunting ferrets, used by royalty, brought to US in 1813, good natured dogs, loyal, protective, weak backs.

Now, you see that some of those things don’t fit under the history of dachshunds, do they? Weed those out and put them under another main topic. Keep doing that until you have 8-10 things under each topic. Anytime you need to refresh your ideas, go back to the resource file or do the Kumar thing again. See why those things are so important now?

Ideally, you want to end up with about 10-20 main topics with about 10 sub-topics below each one. Do you see what you’re doing here? You’re actually writing the book!

Each of those main topics will probably end up being a chapter. The points below them will be the individual paragraphs in that chapter.

One last thing before we call it quits for tonight. You have quite a few main topics there. You need to get them in some kind of logical order so the reader…your reader… won’t feel like you’re jumping around all over the place. The absolute BEST way to do that is to read the topics out loud! See if the way you have them ordered makes sense to you when you’re talking them. Pretend you’re talking to your beloved Uncle Gus. Read him the topics and see what he thinks…he’ll let you know!

Can you see this e-book thing starting to come together? Can you see how close you are to having it done? That ought to REALLY excite you! I know it excites me.

You did a good job today. By the way, have you forgotten those sweaty palms and that knot in your stomach? I thought you might!

Tomorrow, we put it all together. Be there!