2017
Writers who plan to create a book of fiction will have to spend considerably more
time coming up with ideas and plot points.
The eBook format has the advantage of being not only open to self-publishers, but
essentially free for them, which means that “books” too short to really be worth
printing on paper can make perfectly valid eBooks. Therefore, feel free to use a
simple idea.
The next thing is to expand your Idea start with the basic idea you wrote down, and
think about different aspects of it. It may be helpful for you to draw a web of
concepts to do this. For example, let's say you wanted to write a book about Best
Cooking Recipes. You could write down things like “chicken recipes,” “selling
techniques,” and “cost vs. expected returns.” Connect specifics that are related to
each of them, and so on, until you have enough detail to see the structure of the
words in your head. Once this is accomplishes, the next stage is for you to organize
your details. After unpacking and expanding your core idea, you should have a lot
of information about your basic topic written down. Rearrange and organize it in a
vertical outline until it makes sense to you and matches the way you'd like your
book to flow. Think in terms of what your audience will need to know first, and
put basics at the beginning. Once those have been covered, more advanced
concepts can follow without losing the reader.
Now it all comes down to you writing the book. Don't worry about a title table of
contents or any of the other styling aspects of the book yet. Just sit down and start
writing it. You may find it's easier to “start in the middle” by writing a chapter of
your choice first; you may prefer to start at the very beginning and write straight
