How to Make an Electronic Book: Find Your Writing Mojo
The key to eBook writing is to keep it easy and exciting. If writing feels long and overwhelming, your mind will quickly come up with a cereal box full of excuses not to write! Keep your writing easy. Experience less resistance. Think breakfast smoothie.
To keep the writing of your eBook easy, set yourself up for success. Break the process down in to small bits and only ask yourself to complete one bit at time.
The easiest way to break down your eBook writing process is to set up a structure. Start by listing your eBook topic, a potential title, your name or company name, and the year. Congratulations, you are one page done. You have just created your cover page!
Next, outline your chapters, steps, or sections. Studies have shown that in creating steps or sections, readers connect more with odd numbers, so consider writing three, five, or seven steps. My suggestion is to number a piece of paper one through seven. Then, see how many steps easily tumble out of your head. If you come up with an odd number, no problem! If not, divide one of your bigger steps into two smaller steps, or include a bonus section at the end.
Pause here. Once you have your title page and a list of three to seven steps, call it a day. You're writing brain may not feel taxed, but that is a good thing. You always want to end a writing session with the feeling that you could keep going.
Why? Because, this way your brain will begin to associate writing with energy and enjoyment, instead of exhaustion and boredom. Trust me, you will write more in a shorter period of time if you give yourself frequent breaks, than if you tried to push yourself to write all day.
Now each time you sit back down to write, focus on achieving one small success! For example, in one session simply write down 3 bullet points that you want to address under each step. Then, call it a day.
In your next sessions, you can take one step and flush out each bullet point. Depending on the depth of each bullet point, you may only flush out one bullet point per session.
However, keeping it easy is not enough to see quick results when writing an eBook. You also must make the process exciting. The best way I know how to do this is to set up Calls of Self-Action.
Calls of Self-Action are steps you take to share your project with your audience. When you finish a writing session, take a tip or a question you've been working on and ask your social media audience about it.
For example, you can share your eBook topic and ask for title suggestions. Or, You can give them a small tip and ask them what they find most helpful. You can also take a completely different route and ask them to cheer you on as you write.
Share where you are in the writing process and how it's going. Ask for feedback, suggestions and encouragement. Perhaps, you start a count down and ask others to choose to join you in goal setting. Or, you set up rewards, and ask people to come visit you virtually on certain days to get a taste of what you're writing.
Getting others involved holds you accountable, and keeps the process exciting. It opens the door to questions, conversations and sharing that may not have otherwise happened. When you share what you are doing with others, you are no longer alone in the process. I am always amazed by the intuition of others. I can't tell you the number of times I have received a note of encouragement at the exact moment I was starting to feel fatigue.
To keep up with your calls to self-action, write an action step at the beginning of your writing session. Then, at the end, follow through and complete it! Now, just sit back and enjoy as your writing endorphins dance into action.
Please share below!
What writing motivation steps do you take to keep your writing mojo flowing?
Molly Rider, Writing Mentor and Coach.
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Molly offers writing motivation, insight and useful tips for writers and entrepreneurs everywhere. Molly Rider assists business owners, entrepreneurs and writers to break through fears, and step into the next level of their greatness. She helps them to create passive income online, and better establish themselves as an expert in their field. She does this through coaching, and online writing, product development and eBooks.
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