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How To Write A Book Proposal

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There are many strategies to writing a book. You can sit down at your desk and just begin writing. This works well for very few people because at some point in the writing process - you could be halfway through the book before this happens - you are going to hit a roadblock and not know how to continue. Worse, you can lose track of your focus quite easily and go off on tangents that have absolutely no relevance with the rest of the chapter you are working on.

Another frequent writing approach is to jot down a few ideas, maybe even a list of chapters and their subject matter and to start writing. This can actually be worse than writing without any structure because you end up with very large chapters of more than 50 pages and then extremely small chapters of only a couple pages. That does not make sense and it does not result in a book that reads or flows well.

A better way to write your book, albeit still not the easiest way, is to draft an outline. I know, an outline feels too structured for many writers. Please bear with me. Writing an outline, a detailed outline, will not only help you organize your thoughts in a clear and concise manner, it will create a better book. Your book, when organized in an outline will be balanced. You would not have 50 page chapters and 5 page chapters, you will have equal chapters, they will all have a point, and you would not be as likely to go off on tangents.

Additionally, when you use an outline, your book will be written faster because you can approach it in a systematic way.

Now we are going to talk about the easiest approach to writing a book using a template or blueprint. The secret to this is that you are going to create much of the blueprint yourself. Why? Because only you know exactly what needs to be contained in your book. Here is the template part ready?

Remember the outline that we discussed? Go ahead and write that outline but make sure you have 1 chapter for every 10 pages of content. This means if you have a section you think will take 20 pages; find a way to break it into two parts. Now create 20 chapters if you want a 200 page book, 30 chapter titles if you want a 300 page book and so on. There is more...

Under each chapter title, you will want to create 10 points you want to express in your chapter. Each point will cover approximately one page, maybe a little more and maybe a little less but you will end up with 10 pages for each chapter.

Why does this work? It gives you a clear structure to write, so when you are not feeling up to it you really do not have any excuse to not get at least one page done. It also makes it really easy to write your book. Simply turn each point into a question, sit down and answer it. You will have your page written in less than five minutes... really! This means that if it takes you 5 minutes to write a page, you could write a chapter each day, right? That would mean you could have your 20 chapter book, your 200 page book, written in 20 days. Now that is fast and that is why using a template works so well.

How To Write A Book Proposal

Many aspiring authors feel their book would be lost in the sea of books already in print? May I be honest? That feeling is correct if you don't target your potential book readers well.

To write your book to stand out in a crowd, you must write it for a targeted audience interested in your book's topic. Identifying a (niche) targeted audience is really hot in the marketing world right now and rightly so.

Simply put, to target a niche market or audience in your book's topic area: Identify a problem/solution and research your competition. Then develop a different approach. With all the books in the world on your topic, it's not enough to know the solution. You must present the solution in a different way than existing books do.

Develop a way of making your book different. You need a different viewpoint, a niche, or a different spin on perhaps the same information. Examine the problem again. Look at the solution your book solves with the goal of coming up with a way to present your knowledge differently than existing books.

Here are several ways you can do this:

1.Market Segment. You can develop a niche by focusing on an occupation, sex, or age group, i.e. Lose 14 Pounds in 2 Weeks: A Guide for the New 30 at 40, Lose Weight Safely Before, During and After Pregnancy.

2.Experience Group. You could write a book for people experiencing the same thing at the same time. For example, Fit at Forty: A Exercise Guide for the New 30 at 40 or Newbie Mothers Eating Healthy.

3.Broadening Market. Consider appealing to a broader market: Lose 14 Pounds in 14 Days: A Guide for Working Class Men & Women.

4.Focus. Attack a big problem by emphasizing a particular tool or technique that you have experience with. For example, show how heart attack survivors can lose 14 pounds in 2 weeks by eating only fish, white meats and walking 10 miles a day.

5.Program. I love this one. Base your solution on the way you solve a large problem by breaking it into steps, i.e. Write Your Best Book Now: A 7 Step Program for book writing.

6.Expertise. Base your niche on your market's previous experience with a topic, for example, "The Last Business Book You'll Ever Need!"

7.Goal. Organize your existing information around benefits of achieving the goal: Free Again, Healthy Again!

8.Affinity. Perhaps you have a relationship with a high visibility organization that has benefited from your ideas. You can reframe your knowledge by leveraging off your association: The Bank of America Financial Program or the Southern Methodist University Weight Loss Program.

You might notice in each one of the above examples of the same market, the contents of the book would probably be the same! The books would contain the same basic ideas, suggestions, tips, etc. For example, all the books about diets would probably stress the importance of eating right, choosing the right foods in right portions and daily exercise. Yet, each book presents a different viewpoint targeting a different market.

Be bold; have no fear about approaching the same subject as existing books. Focus in on your unique ideas and viewpoint. Remember, according to the writer of Ecclesiastes, "There's nothing new under the sun."

Even, Bernice Fitz Gibbon said, "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were only thought up only little more than a century ago." So start today; make your book different, make it count and make it yours. Write your significant book to stand out in the crowd and sell.

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