Education 5 Basic Tips For Writing A Book

Writing a book is a long hard task. And most books are never finished. But it doesn't have to be that way. Here are 5 basic tips for writing a book successfully and easily: 1. Organize your thoughts before writing a book. There is this myth that great writers just sit down at their typewriters in their little garrets in Paris (or Key West) and just pound away until they've created their great masterpiece. Bleeehhh... what a piece of borscht foisted on us by romantic movies. Yes, there are a few people who've been doing it so long that they can crank out a book in a week without planning it on paper. But for us mere mortals, we need to plan our book. Never write a word without knowing where that word leads. At least not for your professional writing. 2. You need a real system when writing long pieces. Just organizing your thoughts goes a long way to making the process of writing easier. But that's just part of the process... and part of a good system. We're not all Hemingways that can plan our books while we sleep. So you need to develop (or buy or learn) a system to help you through the various stages of writing. 3. Write like you speak. All too frequently, people write as if they were trying to impress a teacher. But think for a moment about when you talk to your friends. Do you really talk like that? In ten syllable words and one hundred word sentences? Didn't think so! Let your real voice show through. Stop trying to impress. Just be yourself. You'll find your words are much simpler. You'll find your sentences becoming shorter. And you'll find your writing becoming much easier to read. Your voice will shine through and you're writing will improve. 4. Write first, fix later. We're simple creatures. We don't do multitasking... at least not well. So stop it. Quit. Now! Have you ever taken a course on brainstorming meetings? Notice that one of the rules is no critiques and no questions for the first round? Why do you think that is? It's because we don't do multitasking well (if at all). And we especially can't do creation while critiquing. So stop it. Turn off the spell checker. Turn off that grammar fixer. Just sit down and write. Get it out. Get it on the paper. Tomorrow is soon enough to go back, read it again and fix the mistakes. Trust yourself. 5. Write. That's the most important tip of all. Unless you sit down and write, all the tips in the world won't help. So write. Write frequently. Write daily. Write well. Write poorly. Write painfully. Write joyfully. But write. When the pen meets the paper, the only rule is "Write".

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