How To Write a Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did

You can never go wrong with the dependable formula W5H: who, what, when, where, how, and why.

What are the key stories or examples that help make the point? Stories -- as long they’re interesting, relevant, non-rambling and fairly succinct -- are time-honored ways to communicate your points.

As I said before, the biggest part is accomplished when you’ve recorded the basis to your book. If you’re wanting a 15,000 to 20,000 word information how-to book, you’re going to be looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of 22 hours, which is why it’s perfect for a weekend.

I once heard John Maxwell, a prolific bestselling author, describe his system. He reads a lot of magazines, especially while traveling, and when he sees something interesting he’ll tear out the article and file it by topic. He has files upon files upon files by topic. When he gets ready to do a book he simply pulls out all the related files, and in

Here’s a thought: What if it took you twice or four times as long to write a book good enough to sell? Would you give up four weekends to have your own book? If the answer is no, then let me save you time. Close this book now and go on to something else.

Here’s a code you can enter into a Google search box that will pull up all the articles with your preferred keywords at EzineArticles: site:ezinearticles.com “your keywords go here” “Viewed 10...4999 times.” “Submitted On * *, 2012” Replace your keywords within the quotes (don’t delete the quotes). “10” currently represents the lowest viewed, and “