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Sunday, 10 May 2009

How to Write a Book Using a Road Map to Success!

Everyday someone hops a train to start writing a book. Unfortunately as one person gets on the train to write a book there are several people who decide that it's hopeless, they'll never complete their book and get off the train.

My hope is that you will be the one who starts the journey of writing a book and stays on to completion. Staying on track to write a book is not without effort and diligence; even so you can do it with an easy road map (a system.) If you're reading this article, I'm almost certain you'll have to change your priorities, the times that you write and the amount that you write. This is why writing a book is so difficult for some because it requires you to change your priorities. Or at the least it requires you to move your book writing project to one of the top 3 priorities in your day.

Most of us, don't want to change, we put our goal of writing a book at the bottom of our list and think voila, and someday soon I'll have a book! In reality, this way it could be years before we reach our goal.


The people who get off the train of writing a book are most likely the ones who didn't use a road map for success. They did not sit down and create a book writing plan. You must have a plan for your book writing; if you don't then there's no point in starting. You might be on a program that brings you close to finishing your book but because you didn't have a plan or a practical goal you abandon it and say it was not working.

The road map for success in your book writing program is to have a specific, but sensible goal. Be specific about your book writing goal. Do not tell yourself that you would like to write a book by the end of this year. That is not a specific goal. You have not set a start date, you have not set an end date and you have not stated what book you would like to write.

A specific book writing goal is stating that you are going to start your book writing program on January 28th at 5:00 a.m. during which time you want to complete your 156-page book '10 Ways to Stop Divorce Before It's Too Late' and it will end at midnight on June 30. Be as precise as you can. Now you have the beginning of the road map to start your book writing journey.

Your next step in this plan is to be practical. Your goals have to consist of a goal that can be achieved. If you state that you would like to write a book in the next few weeks working a couple of hours a week, you are setting yourself up for failure. Not only will you not achieve this goal but also it will cause you to possibly give up because your plan was unrealistic.

Start your book writing plan with a goal that you know you will be able to achieve if you just challenge yourself to achieve. Writing a book in 6 weeks working at least 20 hours a week is something you can do and you will not have to say good-bye to your family and become a hermit to achieve it.

Don't wait any longer; begin your book writing journey with a road map. Start seeing yourself writing and completing a book by your end date. Before you know it, you'll have a finished book in your hand all because you started with a road map to guide you to the finish line.

Earma Brown is an expert in book writing and publishing advice.

Earma Brown, 12 year author, business owner, web developer
helps service business owners, professionals and writers who want to write their best book now!  Visit Earma at http://www.writeyourbestbook.com.  Earma mentors other writers and business professionals through her monthly ezine "iScribe" Send any email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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meliah  - my friends     |24.32.125.xxx |2009-05-12 21:38:40
i really want to write a book for my friends
meliah  - my friends     |24.32.125.xxx |2009-05-12 21:39:44
i really want to write a book to my friends
ike   |32.161.249.xxx |2009-05-14 18:51:06
I really want to write. Book not just because of my characters or story it's
because I want to sit back and smile as if this was a new experience and new
material
ilpocky   |173.74.28.xxx |2009-05-15 02:17:31
wow, I learn something after this. thanks !!!!!!!!
Robert  - none     |168.179.6.xxx |2009-05-18 20:27:25
I read one book in my whole life and it was called "ONLY FORWARD" author
unknown... made me feel most interested in writing a long and vary discriptive,
body-shifting, can,t get to sleep and have to keep reading book. This is the way
I like to put it, anyways I'm into new and unique types of stories, not thoes
let's make love when I'm being attacked by stray deamons while the intensity of
the scare is being drawn away by sex... "duh" Anyways about me I never
finished school and will probably never get the chance to get back in because of
how much things cost today in our economies and people being laid off and so on
and so forth, but thats besides the point I wish that I could have a chance to
become someone before the light at the end of my tunnel closes and I'm not
remember by the people who love to read and families that enjoy to hear
something different and make them feel good about their lives and want to do...
Mindy  - House Wife   |98.135.14.xxx |2009-05-21 12:52:21
So, I have decided to write a self help/ autobiographical book that appeals
to women in the 20s to 30s. This website has definetly gave me a start.
G  - i just don't know   |220.235.219.xxx |2009-05-25 05:55:58
well i have written little stories before, all of them fantasy. But it has been
nilly half a year since this dratted writers block went up. Ever since then my
writings have been sitting with out a ending. So i was wondering how can i get
going again? And when i do how do i keep going?
Anonymous   |86.44.86.xxx |2009-07-14 12:36:06
Savannah  - Mysterious   |76.206.51.xxx |2009-07-14 21:59:11
Nice article. I am in the process of writing a book. Its only 150 pages and it's
going quite well. The previous books i have tried to write, didn't feel right. I
had to spend some time working on it and soon it felt like this had been the
right story all along. It's called "Mysterious"

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