When it comes to putting together your experiences, ideas and research into your own book writing project, it always helps to hear the experiences of those that have been-there, done-that!

Having gone through the process many times myself, there are certain things you learn about book writing that makes the process much less intimidating, massively quicker and much less painful – but then that’s the value of experience right?

A BOOK ABOUT TRAINING FOR A MARATHON

In the definitive guidebook about writing non-fiction, how-to books The Ultimate Information Entrepreneur’s Success Package, we share techniques for uncovering niche markets where the most basic life experiences, interests, passions, hobbies and challenges can be turned into highly profitable books, ebooks and training products that can make you an extra $500/month or be turned into your own 6-figure to 7-figure information publishing business online.

Here’s a very humorous, yet educational blog posting from Roman Mica who recently published a book about his experience training for a marathon titled “No Seriously, My Training Starts Tomorrow”.

Roman pokes fun at the experiences of both training and book writing, but within these humorous Top 10 list of how to write a book are some powerful book writing tips…specifically:

1. It helps to be active or have first-hand experience with what you are writing about.  An alternative approach is to co-write, consult with or have a ghostwriter help you who can add personal experience to your project if you lack that first-hand context
2. Humorous as he puts it – having an editor review your material can make a big difference to the end quality of your work.  However, do not edit as you write – instead outline your book by purpose and question, generate your content and then edit when it’s written
3. Roman talks about how you must make time in the day for your writing – it doesn’t much matter if you are writing a book about parenting, business success, a personal hobby or a marathon, you will need to consistently allocate 30-60 minutes a day to keep momentum on your book writing.  The outlining techniques within The Ultimate InfoProduct Marketer’s Success Package will dramatically improve your ability to write productively anytime, anywhere.
4. Ok, so you don’t need to have the same rigorous diet to be a book writer as you would to run a marathon, still it helps to get proper sleep, eat well and stay consistently healthy as you write your book
5. Perhaps the most useful (I’ll even dare say “hidden secret”) tip Roman gives is to start a blog on your topic before (or at least as) you write your book – you will draw traffic, begin building an audience and get feedback (assuming you post regularly and are good at getting readers to participate) that you can work into your book writing projects

I love it when book writer’s share their experiences with us – from each one of these case studies we can learn more that will make us more effective writers and info product publishers. 

What will the topic of your next report, book, ebook or info product be? 

Jeff