How to Write a Book: A Guide to Nonfiction Writing

By A. I. Abana

                                        How to Write a Book

This disquisition disambiguates the details of book writing other volumes would not discuss. Within the pages of this book are revealed the secrets to book-writing prowess. From writing books, to reports, to white papers to articles, and even product reviews, you would find the method and technique discussed in this book valuable.

How to Write a Book is written for those who want to find out the “secret formula” to writing and churning out book after book, and for those who want to know what definite things go into writing a decent, relevant, life enriching and immensely valuable book.

Here is a gem for aspiring authors and those who want to perfect their craft in art of writing a book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lexis Tuco
• Release date: Dec 22, 2018

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PREFACE

S

o you set out to write a book; you draw out a pen and spread open your writing pad or you launch your favorite word processor program, all set to write. Then it hits you … –blank- … no words; no ideas, and or not a clue what to write about.

Despair not; you are one in a sea of would-be writers facing a similar bottleneck of a challenge. Whether you call it writers block or some other name, the problem falls under the umbrella rubric "How to Write a Book".

Within the pages of this book you will find clues and valuable things that would prove useful to your writing efforts. Whether you are seeking to write blog posts, product reviews, e-books or physical books, you would do well to study every detail outlined in this book.

As you begin your journey into the details, be assured that the things you would be reading about in this book, are things I have come to discover in my own way—during the course of many years of trying out my hand at writing a book, you will be reading a product of raw experience and proven insight.

Writing is art, and make no mistake, as you begin your journey into the world of competent writing, your creativity and imagination would be tasked. This however, does not mean that no method exists to surmount the problem of writing your heart out in a plausible way.

There is style to writing and this style can differ from person to person. There are also a set of guidelines, which if you adhere to can aid your ability to churn out volumes of thoughtful words that would otherwise be more difficult or impossible to put to pen. I intend to unveil one such method through the course of this book, in the hopes that you would find the beginning of the thread when it comes to what things to write about and how to go about writing them.

You may be zealous and eager to churn out the next bestseller, however, regardless of your ambitions; I believe you would do well to heed the directives and guidelines presented in this book.

So do you want to find out what formula to use to churn out book after book? Do you want to know what specific things go into writing a decent, relevant and life-enriching book? Then read on from here to the last chapter because every word was written for you.

CHAPTER 1

GETTING A TOPIC

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traveler could use a map; a soldier could use a weapon. Besides the basic tools for the job a writer needs a moral, a central message, an aim, or topic about which to build and craft out his piece, be it a poem, an article, a white-paper, a report or a book.

Think of a topic as you would a compass, without which a piece of writing would have no bearing. The topic or message a write up is about contains the essence of its writer’s effort.

When you set out to write, first have a topic. There is however, a requirement; you cannot just use any topic. If you miss it in nailing down a good topic to write about, you can miss your target audience, and if you miss your audience, you would be wasting your effort in writing.

About the most prominent cause of writers block or people blanking out of ideas or words when setting out to write, is an unsuitable or inappropriate topic. As you would likely find out, what topic is appropriate or not is relative to the writer. Some niches, genres or domains are better handled by some writers than others; nevertheless, some general guidelines apply to just about all writers regardless of what niche or genre they are into.

Having said this, what then makes a topic on point? What makes it relevant or suitable? How do we even know where to look to get a hint at or idea on such topics? Let’s find out …

DEMAND ANALYSIS

When you set out to write, you don’t just dream up arbitrary things in your head to write about—unless you are an avid writer who is experienced enough to have good a feel for what topics would sell. If you did that, your effort would be a gamble or as it were a shot in the dark with the hopes that you would hit your target.

You need pointers to carry out just about every step of the book writing process, you know, indicators that would at the very least enable you to make an educated guess as to what to write about or how to go about it. From my experience, these pointers are less definite for fiction than they are for real life, problem oriented writing and as such the topical research is nuanced for those two.

Demand for Works of Fiction

Demand analysis for fiction need not be (neither can it be—as I have discovered) utterly thorough. Often, you may just find out what domain, genre or class of fiction sells well and concentrate there. Some brief search on Google might bring up articles, blogs and or social discussions that reveal industry