subject: Take Baby Steps In Your Writing To Yield A Book [print this page] Big numbers can be pretty intimidatingBig numbers can be pretty intimidating. But theres a way to get around this. And its by taking baby steps writing one chapter or even 300 500 words at a time.
This is how I wrote my book, WEEKLY WRITES 52 Weeks of Writing Bliss Every week for one whole year, I wrote one chapter or module. Each module was only 250 to 500 words. It helped too that as I wrote each module, writers were testing it. They did the activities in the module I sent out to them every week.
When I started, I began with an outline for Weekly Writes. This was just so I could see what I was supposed to do every week. An outline does not have to be set in stone. Think of an outline as a frame, a guide. It can be modified as you go along. So by the time I written chapter module 52, I realized I had a book ready to show to a publisher or one that I could self publish and sell the next day.
I did not intend for Weekly Writes to be a book. I created it as an e mail course. But when week 52 came around, I knew Weekly Writes could be a book too. I sent a proposal to a publisher and a week later received a note that she wished to review the manuscript. A couple of weeks later, I was offered a contract and given a deadline for submitting the final draft.
It took about 6 weeks to edit and rewrite some chapters. And to make the book even more useful to readers, I invited writers who had taken the e mail course version to contribute creative pieces they have written as a direct result of doing the writing activities in the course modules.
The result A writer tested book.
On top of that, I had fun writing it because when I wrote a chapter, I simply wrote. I stuck to writing 250 500 words once a week. One baby step at a time. It was certainly easier to write when I worked with smaller goals word quota every week.
Perhaps you can try it too. You may have a book 52 weeks from now, even sooner
by: dev738
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