1. Make a resolution

Determine a number of days that you will set aside time to write in order to complete your manuscript. Spend a reasonable amount of time each day developing the material that you write. Write “on assignment” each and every day until your resolution has been completed and you have a manuscript.

2. Questions and answers

Create a list of ten or twelve questions about a topic you are passionate about, then set about systematically answering the questions and writing ten or twelve pages about each question. Each “answer” becomes a chapter in your book.

3. Chapter of the month

Make a list of twelve topics that relate to a subject you want to write about, then make the time to write a chapter each month of one year to complete your book.

4. Interview style

It’s easier for some people to talk to someone about their passion than it is to write about it. Get a good friend to agree to spend ten to twelve sessions with you as you record what you have to say about one topic for each session. Transcribe what you said and then fine tune.

5. Go on your own writer’s retreat

Book a stay at a place where you will not be distracted, hold yourself hostage, and then write your brains out until your manuscript is completed.

6. Write another person’s story

Meet with a person whose story you want to write about and record what they have to say regarding ten or twelve topics that are pre-determined. Transcribe and develop the material later.

7. By an outline

Sit down and name your book, based on the subject. Break what you want to communicate about your subject into ten or twelve topics. Spend some time creating ten or twelve focus sentences that are all related to each topic. Develop more material about each of the focus sentences until you have said all you want to say.

8. Collaborate

Get a writing partner and set aside time to meet. Create a basic outline for your book and then take turns writing paragraphs.

9. Blog

Set up a blog site and write three posts a week about a topic or random subjects until you have compiled enough of your thoughts to publish a book. Categorize your posts as you write and organize the material into chapters later.

10. Let others inspire you

If you know of published books on a topic you are passionate about, have a look at some of them—don’t read them—just look at them. Without copying their words or the details of their material, use their table of contents as a model to gain your own inspiration. Re-name the chapters your own way and then put the book away and write your own thoughts and do your own research.

 

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