How To Write a Book Without Writing

From my post "How to Write a Book" I share the 4 ways we use a speakers material to create a best seller fast.

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I create most of my content with a computer and keyboard. Works great for many people, but there is a faster way to write (also the easiest): talk your book

Once you have an outline of chapters and key points, you can create the chapters in any order.. just by taking your book. As an expert on your topic, you likely get asked questions about your topic every day. In the course of a week, you will probably produce more than enough information to fill a book.

The trick is to record yourself as your focus on one of chapter.  Using your outline, you can quickly cover the topic and key points for that chapter. When that’s recorded and transcribed you’ll have a rough draft in no time.

Speaking into a recorder can be intimidating. Try one of these instead:

Hire an editor or writer to work as your co-author. Once they become familiar with you and your outline of chapters, set up a phone conference line with recording and have them ask the questions and keep you on focused as you provide answers, stories, explanations and comments. You’ll find that having a listener on the line makes it easier, and using your editor will allow them insight and input during the process.

Use what you already have. If you’ve been a guest on a teleseminar or radio program, given a speech on your topic or written articles, you likely have more material than you think… ready to add to your book. We start most projects by taking an inventory of these assets and our authors are surprised when they see the list.  A good editor can place your existing content into chapters in your outline much quicker than you thought possible.

Blog your book content. If you don’t have content, start creating it in pieces. Many a book has started as a series of blog posts. I used some posts to start Twitter Revolution as the first step in that book. We added a polls and questions (on Twitter of course) and invited other experts on a radio program that we transcribed. We had hundreds of contributors and a rough draft in just a few weeks with hundreds of pages more than we needed. We edited it down to the best, and got the first book out about Twitter.

Sell Your Information First. Information marketers know that the content of a book is more than enough material to create a seminar. The reverse it also true. Teach a course in person, in training classes, on the phone or on a webinar. Most of the material created for the course will be useful for your book. Make sure it’s recorded and transcribed. Read more at www.bestsellerauthors.com

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John Kremer's Advice to Authors

John shares 8 tips for authors starting out on a book.

I added that book marketing for an author with a web presence should be stared at the same time and linked to my free course at http://BookMarketingStrategy.com

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Advice to Would-Be Book Authors

1. Begin by reading a lot of books on the subject you want to write about. Get educated. Discover what others have written so you can make your book better, different, or more targeted. If you are writing a novel, then read good novels in your genre (romance, mysteries, fantasy, etc.). Read some of the classics as well as some more recent fiction. Get to know the history and current style of the genre you want to write. 2. Sit down and start writing. Write one to four pages a day. Don't worry about how good it is. Just get started writing. 3. Once you've gotten a week or two worth of writing collected, begin to outline how you want to write your book. If nonfiction, outline the chapters or step-by-step description you want to focus on. If fiction, develop and outline your plot, setting, and major characters.

Book Marketing Bestsellers: Promoting and selling your books to a worldwide audience. The Book Promotion Blog BookMarket.com Home Subscribe via Email To receive this blog via email and get a free report on 50 Creative Ways to Market Your Books, enter your Email address below: John Kremer JohnKremer JohnKremer The new government stimulus program: Let .gov websites drive traffic to your site: http://bit.ly/cxFpt0. Short report tells you how. yesterday reply JohnKremer The advice Ryan Deiss is giving away will build your website traffic no matter what your subject: http://bit.ly/cxFpt0 2 days ago reply JohnKremer Free backlinks on .edu and .gov websites: https://touchstone.infus... - Free PDF explains 2 days ago reply JohnKremer Book Marketing Tip #3: Sell autographed collectible copies of your book via Amazon's Sell Yours Here program. #BM 2 days ago reply Join the conversation My Websites Book Publishing Key Statement BookMarket.com John Kremer's File Cabinet Self-Publishing Hall of Fame Hot Times, Cool Places Quotable Books Way Back Words My Blogs Teleseminars & Free Reports Hot Times, Cool Places What does every good marketer really do? He creates relationships. She make friends. When you begin to think of marketing in this way, everything about marketing becomes more fun. Suddenly there is no foreignness, no fear, no feelings of inadequacy. We can all make friends. It's a talent we've had since we were little children. Use it. Always do your best. And always, always have fun. Books news Summertime, and the Reading Is Easy bookslut.com Bookshelf of the Week: The ‘Ark’ robaroundbooks.com Who Owns Literature? finebooksmagazine.com Most Wanted Mashup: Hottest Books of the Week readersadvisoronline.com A book that changed my life minnesotareads.com Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Advice to Would-Be Book Authors Question from reader: What advice do you have for aspiring authors who are not yet motivated enough or knowledgeable enough to get started? John's Answer: First, people who are not yet motivated enough to get started are not really authors. People who are not yet knowledgeable enough are also not really authors. At least not professional authors. Now, given that, authors who want to write a book but do not yet know how to go about it and don't quite know how to get started -- the desire is enough. If you have a passion for your topic and for your book, you can write a book. Start simply. 1. Begin by reading a lot of books on the subject you want to write about. Get educated. Discover what others have written so you can make your book better, different, or more targeted. If you are writing a novel, then read good novels in your genre (romance, mysteries, fantasy, etc.). Read some of the classics as well as some more recent fiction. Get to know the history and current style of the genre you want to write. 2. Sit down and start writing. Write one to four pages a day. Don't worry about how good it is. Just get started writing. 3. Once you've gotten a week or two worth of writing collected, begin to outline how you want to write your book. If nonfiction, outline the chapters or step-by-step description you want to focus on. If fiction, develop and outline your plot, setting, and major characters. 4. Once you have an idea of the whole shape of your book (chapter by chapter outline or a plot), now begin writing your book. Write something every day. Set aside some time to write. 5. If you find as you write your book that you need to do some more research, do that now. Then go back to writing. 6. Get feedback from someone you trust, someone who will not criticize but who can give you honest feedback. 7. Don't give up. If you write four pages a day, you'll have a book in less than six months. If you write five pages a week, you'll have a book within a year. 8. If you can't write a book despite all this advice, then create a tape, do a video, write a blog, create a new website. Get your content and inspiration out somehow. You can always write a book later. Read more at blog.bookmarket.com

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