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Plot Your Course

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   3. Plot Your Course Arranging your ideas – logical progression In Module 2, we talked about getting our ideas out on paper via our ‘analog modular capture and recording system’ … otherwise known as Sticky notes!  ...

Do Your Research

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   9. Do Your Research Let’s talk about research. What it is and what it isn’t. When to do it, when not to do it, when to stop doing it, and when credit should be given. We can also mention where proper research material used to live...

Your Book’s Theme

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   8. Your Book’s Theme Idea vs. Theme Now that you’ve identified your perfect reader and you’ve determined the benefit you’re offering your reader, it’s time to nail down the main idea and theme of your book.  “You...

Determine the Benefit

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   7. Determine the Benefit What value does this book offer the reader? Now that I’ve identified my readers (Molly and Max and others just like them), I’ve got to ask, ‘What value is my book going to be to Molly and Max? ...

Determine Your Audience

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   6. Determine Your Audience Who is my reader? This is the most important and most unasked question that presents itself to any author. Have you really considered who is going to be reading your book once you’ve finished it? When...

Create Chapters

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   5. Create Chapters Let’s Review: The first step we took on this journey was to simply ‘begin writing’ – to develop the habit of writing on a regular schedule. In the end, writers write; if you’re not writing regularly,...

Create an Outline

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   4. Create an Outline Thinking Linear Now that you’ve got your Sticky notes or index cards arranged in a logical progression, like stepping stones leading down the path you want to take the reader, it’s time to put those ‘stepping...

Gather Ideas

How To Write a Book in 30 Days   2. Gather Ideas You’ve begun to write on a regular schedule; that’s awesome! But you’ve got so many ideas, so many things you want to include in your book.  How can you corral all those ideas into some manageable sequence that...

Legacy

Legacy I started reading a book last night. It began like this, “The Christian life is not so much about the hows and wherefores of living righteously on earth as it is about first realizing who God is and then proceeding to love Him so much that His desires...

Legacy and Artifacts

Legacy – “something of value left by one who has come before.” *Last week I was invited to a chapel service at Holmes Bible College by my friend and author Chris Maxwell. It was a good service. Chris is an engaging speaker and the students led worship and other...