When you give your book a target, it will hit the mark of good sales. To be honest, not everyone will be interested in your book. When you target one audience at a time, each tip, each story or how-to will be more effective. Aim your message and you will have a competitive edge on many book writers. Create an audience profile.
Are your potential readers male or female? How old are they? Are they interested in self-help, mystery, romance, how-to books? What problems do they face? Are they business people or professionals? Are they techies or non-techies? Are they willing to spend $15-30 on your book?
2. Examine your book's significance.
Many writers tremble in their tracks with fear that their book won't sell. Don't be afraid. Your book is significant if its presents useful information, answers important readers questions, and impacts people for the good. If it's entertaining or humorous it could go further than you imagined.
It creates a deeper understanding of humanity, animals or this world. With one to three of these elements your book is worth writing. More than three, it has potential of making great sales even to best seller status. Go ahead, write your book and make the world a better place.
3. Develop your book's working title.
In the literary world it's called a working title for everyone knows it may change. You may decide to change it or your publisher. Even so, working titles help direct and focus your writing. Some non-fiction writing does better with subtitles. If needed, it clarifies the title. Obscure titles will miss the mark and sales.
Which titles grab you and stir a desire to read what the author has to say: Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! or How to Teach Others About Money; How to Win Friends and Influence People! or How to Make Friends.
4. Write your book's thesis.
A thesis reflects the main central thought and greatest benefit of your book. It should answer your audiences' question, "How will this book solve my problem of? Writing the thesis before you write the book will keep you on the path of focused, powerful yet easy to read content.
All chapters support your book's main concept. For "Win with the Writer Inside," the thesis is "How to write, complete, and publish your best book fast." The best titles often include the thesis statement in some form.
5. Design your book's 60 second "Poster" before writing chapter 1.
Make your 2-3 sentence blurb into a sound byte. Like a hallway poster that you only have a few seconds to read, you condense your sound byte message into a 60 second blurb to tell and sell.
Use your poster board at networking meeting, in the elevator, in the grocery line, anywhere you only have a few seconds to tell about your book. Composing your poster board should include your title, 3 top benefits and compare your book with a successful book in your field.
Writing a book is a journey. Most journeys go so much smoother with a map or travel plan. Taking the simple steps above will get you started and keep you going to completion. Start today then complete and release your significant message to the world. Write your first book and prosper!
This book consisted of the thoughts and meditations of the person who initiated the new follower to the Wicca religion. It was assumed that all the knowledge of the Initiator would be passed on to the new Witch in the process of copying each of the pages filled with ancient knowledge. This book used to be kept a secret and the information in it written in a coded or jumbled manner to prevent non-believers from abusing them.
As Witches succeed in creating new spells, they may append these spells and rituals to their individual Book of Shadows. Later in life, if they become a High Priest or High Priestess and initiate other Wiccans, this book may be copied by hand by the new followers of the religion. In this way, the original information is passed down from generation to generation.
The term "Book of Shadows" originated with Gerald Gardner who helped spread Wicca all over the world. He is believed to have based the name on a Sanskrit manual that defines the length of a man's life by the length of his shadow. Gerald Gardner's Book of Shadows is published online at http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/gbos/ . It includes information on Casting the Circle, Drawing Down the Moon, Initiations, the tradition of Cakes and Wine, Sabbat Rituals, Chants, Helping the sick, the Scourge and the Kiss, The Eightfold Way, the Meeting Dance, Skyclad, etc. As he constantly updated his Book of Shadows, we can see the additions and appropriate changes that are made to the information to keep it current.
In his Book of Shadows, Gerald Gardner explains The Eightfold path:
Meditation or Concentration
Trance States, Clairvoyance, Projection of the Astral etc.
Drugs, Wine, Incense
Dance, Performing Rites
Chants, Spells, etc
Blood control, Breath Control
Scourge
The Great Rite
Regarding Casting of the Circle, he mentions this: "It is most convenient to mark the circle with chalk, paint or otherwise, to show where it is; but marks on the carpet may be utilized. Furniture may be placed to indicate the bounds. The only circle that matters is the one that is drawn before every ceremony with either a duly consecrated Magic Sword or Athame. The circle is usually nine feet in diameter, unless made for some very special purpose. There are two outer circles, each six inches apart, so the third circle has a diameter of eleven feet."
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