write a book
Tips For Writing Your First Book – Important Things to Remember About Books
Here are some facts about writing a book that you should remember.
Books require someone to read the book. If you don’t have a group of readers you don’t have anything except a bunch of paper with type on it. You have to find the group you will sell most of the books to and concentrate on them. You can’t be all over. If you look at T.V. channels they always are aimed at a specific group of watchers. Cartoon channels are aimed at kids and teenagers, the news channels at those who want to be kept up to date, science-fiction channels, etc. They concentrate on one group of people, because otherwise nobody will watch them; it is the same with books.
All books need to meet a need. A weight loss book helps to meet the needs of someone who is trying to lose weight, while a fiction book meets the needs of someone who needs to be entertained. Your book must do the same: it needs to give the reader answers or solutions, or at least help them find these answers and solutions to their needs.
The Disadvantages of Being a Freelance Writer
I learned to be an entrepreneur at my great-grandfathers knee. And further refined my skills under my grandfather’s tutelage and my father’s mentorship. My family has been entrepreneurs for more than five generations. So being a freelance writer was not a shock to the system. I was prepared for the ups and downs.
So what’s the point of all this? Well, my father had a saying “There’s no point in asking the advantages of a job. You’ll figure those out soon enough. Ask about the disadvantage. Those are the more dangerous of the two. And they’re harder and more costly to learn.”
