How To Write Your Own E-Book In Just Five Days!
© 1999 by Miguel Alvarez, e-ditorial.com


Selling information products is the most profitable venture
on the Internet... this is a known fact. And e-books are the
up and coming giant of information products.

However, there are some problems that web marketers must
face in order to create a truly valuable e-book. Not
everyone has these problems, but many people do (I certainly
did when starting out).

Without a doubt, the biggest, meanest, and most vile of
these problems is not knowing how to write.

Writing, for some of us, can be as hard as trying to swim
upstream in chocolate pudding; but I learned that, by
following some simple steps, anyone can create good
information products in a snap.

Here are a few tips I've learned that have helped me create
profitable and worthwhile e-books, reports, sales letters,
etc.

DAY 1
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Before you begin a long trip, you have to decide where you
want to go. You have a destination in mind. Otherwise you'd
be wandering all over the place, maybe you know of some
interesting places, but you'd never arrive anywhere you'd
truly want to be without a plan.

The same happens is true of writing. The first thing you
have to do is decide what you are about to write and jot it
down on a piece of paper. State your goals.

DAY 2
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Now, do some research and some thinking about your proposed
work. What do you want your e-book to say? What are the key
points you want to make in your writing? What stories dodo
you want to tell? Who will read this e-book (your target
market)?

Do not write the e-book yet. Just think about it and
scribble your thoughts. Put them on index cards or in
a small notebook - this will help you keep the path of
your journey.

This is called the 'idea-gathering' stage. Think. Talk.
Daydream. And take notes on everything you have in mind; if
you don't, you may forget a bright idea.

DAYS 3 & 4
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This is the day when all the actual writing is going to
happen. Relax, sit at your computer (or typewriter), unplug
the telephone and WRITE!

Write non-stop. What you have to do here is write without
thinking. The greatest obstruction to creative and
effortless writing is too much thinking. This may sound like
a paradox, but it's not. We've all become too paranoid about
the rules of grammar and proper English usage. For this step
of the process: forget the rules! Forget *ALL* the rules.

Write! Don't stop to punctuate or check your spelling or
look up a fact. Just write. Get as much on the screen (or on
paper) as you can handle. Be enthusiastic about it.

If you don't know what to write, write "I don't know what to
write. I don't know what to write..." until you DO know what
to write. Just keep writing, keep your fingers moving. Don't
worry about what your writing looks like or how it sounds.
You are not going to hand this material to anyone, this is
for your eyes only. You will edit it later.

DAY 5
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This is the day when all the editing will take place.
Editing can be a lot of fun, all you have to do is to be
ruthless about your writing and clip out (delete) anything
that doesn't help you convey your message. Punctuate. Check
your grammar and your spelling.

After you are done, go to a copy shop and make some copies
of your work. Give it five friends. Ask for their opinions
and for their suggestions, ask them to write them down their
thoughts on the copy you handed them.

Get the copies back and change what you feel needs to be
changed. Not every single thing they tell you needs to be
fixed, but if four or five of your friends tell you about
the same error... correct it.

Lay your work aside and leave it alone for a couple of days.
Then come back to it, and read it as if someone else wrote
it. Stuff will jump to your face, correct that, too.

Voilá! Your e-book is now written. Now, all you have to do
is format it nicely and start marketing it.

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