The Seven Steps to Writing a Book

Almost everyone think's they've landed on a brilliant book idea at one point or another. Maybe you have this one story bouncing around their head that you are simply sure will make a bestselling novel. The only problem is that actually sitting down to write a book is, well, kinda daunting. After all, it's one thing to have an idea, and quite another to make it compelling enough to have thousands (or millions!) of readers hang on your every word. Even the prospect of putting together an 80,000 word manuscript is daunting enough to stop most people in their tracks before they ever even try.

In this week's video I aim to make the process of starting your own book just a little bit easier. I've published five books in the last twelve years and have made, and learned from, enough mistakes that I have t a few hard-won gems of wisdom that can get you well on your way to bashing out your first manuscript.  

The most important thing to remember is that books don't come together all at once. You're not required to write the perfect finished draft in the first go. Indeed, most professional writers I know fully understsand that our first drafts are bad.

Scratch that. 

Our first drafts are almost always embarrassingly horrible. The trick is knowing in advance that the only way to write something good is to start out with a bad first draft before you can begin the magic of editing.  

In my video I'll tell you what really goes in to making that bad first draft--from an easy method to get that creative material on paper, to how you can be sure that the manuscript you eventually come up with isn't so bad that it isn't a lost cause.  The trick, it turns out, is think that you book as something like a baby parrot. It will make more sense when you watch.