Finish Your Book in Two Days or Less: How to Write a Nonfiction Book Fast

By Britt Malka

"Writing a book fast? That means sloppy."

Sadly, there's a myth that says that if something should be good, it must take time.

While this is true for some things—like, you must keep a piece of coal under pressure for thousands of years to make a diamond—then it's not true for writing.

Writing slowly doesn't mean writing better. In fact, it's often the contrary, and I prove that inside this book. You will see for yourself if you do the little test in the first chapter.

What about the readers? Shouldn't we keep them in mind?

Absolutely. And the best way to do that is to give them books that satisfy them.

What do readers want?

Can you imagine Mrs. Emmy Olson? She wakes up one beautiful sunny morning, smells the coffee that's brewing, opens her laptop, and finds her favorite online bookstore.

And there she searches for a book that solves a problem plus hundreds of pages about stuff she doesn't care about?

No? Neither can I.

Most people look for books that can either entertain them, solve a problem for them, or motivate them.

They want a book about that specific topic, and just that.

That's why short books are so popular.

It's also why authors should write a series of books to cover more related topics that their readers would be interested in.

That all becomes a lot more real when you learn how to write good books fast.

In Write Your Book in Two Days or Less you'll learn how to do that.

And at the end of the book, you'll find my case study. It shows how I came up with an idea for a topic and wrote the book in less than three hours and ten minutes.

Are you dreaming of writing more books without spending months or years on each of them?

Then check out the first few pages of this book. Read the table of contents.

Buy this book, and soon you can publish your own nonfiction book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Britt Malka
• Release date: Apr 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393412984

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FINISH YOUR BOOK IN TWO DAYS OR LESS: HOW TO WRITE A NONFICTION BOOK FAST

Britt Malka

CHAPTER ONE

A Book in Two Days?

"YOU HAVE TO resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that’s just the way it is. It’s like learning an instrument, you’ve got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with." ~ JK Rowling

What's the point in writing a Kindle book in two days? And can it be done? Furthermore, wouldn't it just be a pile of rubbish?

Short nonfiction books are hot. I buy them. You probably buy them. It's so easy... You search the online bookstore, and you find a book you want, then one click, and it's yours.

It has never been easier to buy books.

And it has never been easier to sell books, either.

Just a few years ago, you had to find a publisher who would be willing to invest a huge sum of money in your book. And if it was your first, it would be very hard to find such a publisher. Even JK Rowling received a lot of rejection slips.

Now? You just publish your book for free. And the entire world can find it through online book stores—with their computers or their phones.

If you want to sell books, there's no way around self-publishing.

Make Your Dream Come True

Now... I remember back in 1994, when I decided to follow my dream and become a full-time writer, just the thought of writing a book scared me.

A whole book???

Woah!

I read a lot of books about writing. I even bought a course and followed it for several months. And I did more than that. I said goodbye to 20% of my salary to take Fridays off. Those became my writing days.

The rest—as they say—is history.

I wrote my first book in 1998—about Windows 98. And I've written more than 25 published books since, plus all the self-published books. I've lost count of those.

Some of the 25 books that were published through a Danish publishing house were my own ideas. Most were not.

Some books took me weeks to finish. Others took months. But the best-written ones took me only days.

Debunking an Ingrained Myth

There's some kind of myth saying that if you finish a job fast, then it's lousy work.

That's not true when it comes to writing!

The more inspired you are, the better AND faster you write.

Don’t believe me?

Okay, then take me up on this challenge. It will only take two times five minutes. Here goes:

Text #1: Think for a moment about your favorite meal.

Got it?

Good. Now set a timer and write about it for five minutes. Then come back here.

Text #2: Look up frikadeller on Wikipedia. You can follow this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frikadeller

Read about frikadeller, then set your timer to five minutes and write.

When you’ve written