You've written your first and second chapters, and now you're rolling right along, one chapter per day. The audience is chosen, and you're delivering exactly what you promised. So what's next?

How to get expert advice to help you write your book: Research.

The great thing about the internet is the availability of information at the speed of your fingertips. You can find out any fact figure or fiction in a fraction of a second using a simple search engine.

Facts and figures can add depth and dimnesion to your book. A well researched subject will also make you a better expert. As the old saying goes, "The more you know . . . the more you know!"

If you were to write a book about how to paint like Da Vinci, you could research his different techniques, and then write chapters on the top three. Google Da Vinci paintings, read and read, absorb the information, and write out your chapter.

Or if you wanted to write a book on how to make your own chapter books, again, hit the search engines and look for scrapbooking tips, book binding techniques, and artistic embellishments. You are finding support information to help you write your book.

Most writers are prolific readers. They read everything.

Books, magazines, phamplets, articles on-line, heck, even cereal boxes. I imagine most writers are like me, they try to take in as much of the world around them as they can, because one never knows when inspiration will strike.

Reading is research. A published author is an expert, and you can take advantage of their knowledge to help you write a better product.

Don't be afraid to pull from different disiplines, or genres and approach your subject in a new way. And be creative.

Toy with alternative approaches:

A recipe book with financial advice? They don't go together, there's no way it would work. But the title, which is the most important thing you will ever write, could help it sell millions. THE RECIPE for MILLIONS! or MILLION DOLLAR RECIPES are books that people will pick up and buy. Tie it together with good food, and sound financial planning, and you will have the ingredients for success.

How about football facts and life leadership?

Or THE MILLIONAIRE'S SCRAPBOOK?

Or what can you think of? By thinking outside of the triangle, you can create approaches to your subject matter that will set you apart from your competition. It will also allow you to mash up different disiplines, picking and choosing which expert you can quote, beg, borrow or "steal!"

Wait! Wait! Wait!

You can't steal material! That's plagerism. That's wrong.

It is. But one of my favorite, unattributed quotes is, "Great writers don't imitate. They steal."

That is not to say that they pass off someone else's work as their own. That's what's wrong. If you just regurgitate someone else's words, you are plagarising. Wrong. It's wrong.

And it's important enough to say it again, it's wrong.

However, if you read something, and it inspires you to write about the subject, and your thoughts run along the same line as the author, but you're not using the writer's words, you're just telling your thoughts on his ideas, then you're stealing right.

Shakespeare wrote the same love story over and over again, and he retold fables from France, and Italy. Heck, he may have even lifted Marlowe!

Every hero's journey begins with Beowolf.

Why on earth would you reinvent the wheel? It's been done before, and probably better than you could do it. A thousand typing monkeys and what not.

So where do you come in?

Be inspired, and creative and combine Romeo and Juliet with a Midsummer's Night's Dream. (maybe not those two, but you get the idea)

Combine, put it in the blender of your brain and mix well. You see, I know that you'll take the ceral box facts, add it to the article on the economic upheaveal in asian markets, and apply it to depression era glass collecting. It's the MASH, and it's what makes you unique.

Speaking of MASH, watch every single episode from the first five years if you want to know what comedy is: you'll also see what I'm talking about when I say "stealing." Hawkeye does Groucho Marx over and over again. The joke set ups are classics. Want to know how to tell a story in your book to illustrate a point you're trying to make? (narrative non-fiction) Use the story arc from any episode of MASH.

You can't go wrong with expert advice from emmy winners from a show that lasted 11 years. Nor could you go wrong talking about the ideas and ideals of a NY TIMES BESTSELLING author who's been on the top ten list for 10 years. These are experts that you can use.

I've always been told to find mentors to help me achieve my goals. You may have even have heard the term, Mastermind Group. It was coined by Napoleon Hill, and described how a group of people together can use their creativity, their knowledge and expertise to advise each other to greatness.

It could also refer to a team a person puts together to help reach a common goal. After all, if you want to be a millionaire, or a published author, or a master chef, shouldn't you go to a millionaire for advice? Shouldn't you ask a published author to show you how to get published? Or ask a Master Chef to teach you to cook?

But not everyone has access to these people in their social networks. Unless their social network includes the library. Because every single type of person from every walk of life can give you any type of advice you need no matter your subject.

Want to write a book about Australian Aboriginal original art? Guess what? There is someone at your library who can talk to you about it via books. And you can find them on the internet, and maybe even ask questions. You are getting expert advice.

Expert advice that can help you write a better book.

And once the book is written, how do you edit it? How do you tap into the resources of publishing houses, and use expert editors to make your book the best book on your subject ever?

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