The topic and book title of your print book or electronic book counts-big time. For non fiction books, which would you buy-The Art of Kissing or The Art of Courtship? The kissing book sold over 60,500 while the other sold only 17,500 copies. Many people new to book writing want to know how to start a book so they can avoid costly mistakes and begin writing successfully from page one. Before you choose your topic pay attention to your target audience. What skills do they want and need? What will they be willing to pay for your information?

3 Powerful Writing Book Ideas and Tips

1. Write a book your audience needs or wants.

Think of a particular audience's challenge or problem, then solve it with your book. People want how-tos and skills. While sex is still a top seller, people want related topics such as successful online dating, or how to create a life partner relationship. Challenges like making money and saving time still attract book buyers. Business books sell well. People need writing, reading, speaking, computing, communication, math, sales, marketing and internet skills. Non-fiction how to books sell best. When your nonfiction books sell well, you can finance your novel.

2. Survey your book market.

Brainstorm with and ask for feedback from friends and associates. Let them vote on the best ten topics, titles and subtitles, even chapter titles. Ask them what benefit words convince them to buy the book? If they are lukewarm about your title, ask them to give you one. While some authors get their book title instantly and know it's the right one, many of us need help.

When you use the synergy of more brain power, you receive so many more ideas. Don't be attached to your choices. If the book title is the number one thing that sells your book, wouldn't you want the right one? Feedback always helps build a better book.

3. Create a winning vision for your book.

Know that your target audience will buy your book, especially your easy to read one. For your book vision, specifically, name the outcomes you will see, hear and feel. Place this winning vision in color on a card. Put it near your workstation. Carry it with you.

Sample: Place today's date including the year at the top of your card. Then use the I see, I hear and I feel states: "Now that my book (title and subtitle) is finished and is a best seller. I see---thousands of my audience buying it from my book-selling Web site. I hear---applause from multiple audiences and I feel confident and happy people like my book."

Instead of hope, plan your book to be a best seller with your book planning vision.. Accept as true right now that your book is significant and marketable. It's far easier to see the happy ending of your plan as you write it than to just set a goal.

Make Your Book a Top Priority

You want to know how to write a best seller, you want to finish in 30 days, but is it doable, is it practical? Good intentions motivate your desire to write, but you just can't find the time, especially when you already work a full day. When you want to write a business book or any non-fiction book, think about when you you can fit writing into your days and start developing a consistent schedule.

Stop writing book ideas down and start writing your book.

1. Make a list of your top three life priorities.

Most people include in their list: friends or family, career or work, travel, financial independence, to write a book, make money with a book. Be sure to include in the top three; to write a book. If you don't include writing a book in this list, it just won't happen.

2. Check your calendar, PDA, or Outlook planner.

What do you spend the most time on and how is that working for you?

What's happening in your daily life that stops your writing your book?

Do you have too much to do on your daily list or do you feel guilty you aren't doing enough? Do your present efforts pay off in new clients or product sales? Perhaps you focus on putting out the fires, checking your emails daily, and other barely important things to help you succeed. It's time to move your book to the top of your priority list. Work on it and finish it before you allow other interests to place it forever on the back burner.

Always focus on what you do and enjoy best in your life, and for business, what makes you the most money while you enjoy the process. Ignore those tasks that's making you miserable and not bringing you profits or new clients.

3. Write High Level Activities (HLA's) every day in your organizer.

Without action, you won't move your book to the finish line.

4. Apply these HLA examples to your organizer.

Monday

• List topics and questions to answer for the entire book that will connect with your readers.
• Categorize and organize just one chapter's questions and topics.

Tuesday

• Write a rough draft of the middle of ch. 2 like - what questions you will answer for your readers (they want solutions!)
• Transform those questions into headings or headlines.

If you answer 5 questions, you will have about a 5-page middle of the chapter. Finish the high priority activity before you move on to a lower priority. That means phone calls, emails, and requests from others. Give yourself a definite time each day that is sacred to the cause--your finished book.

5. Remember the huge payoffs to you!

Put less important things on the bottom of your lists and now why your book will payoff - it brings you new clients, it illustrates your savvy expertise, it connects you to others to make a difference in their lives..

Writing a short book can be the most powerful marketing activity you will ever engage in. If you don't work well alone, join a phone coaching session with other business writers. When you get feedback on what you write from a professional coach or group, your writing improves and moves faster to the finish line. A professional will gently nudge you to do each assignment before you move on.

When you think of how to write and sell a book, go beyond your passion, beyond your intention. Take action with the High Level Activities that will pay off 100 times your effort.

Don't Believe the Myths - Believe in Yourself

You want to make a difference in people's live, you are researching a topic and becoming an expert. You have creative book ideas. You want to give your audience answers for their questions on your topic. You want to attract new clients, brand yourself or business or maybe you want to write a novel to educate and entertain.

You resist! You have doubts. It takes too long. You are too busy. These are reasons, but they aren't real; they are myths. You can write a profitable book--even a lot of books--fast!

Replace These Six Myths With Options

1. Takes too much time.

When you focus on one topic at a time, you can write chapters fast. When you keep your book length under 120 pages, you can write it in less than a month. That's why you need to do some market-driven pre-planning before you write your book.

Know your audience before you write rather than look for one after it's done. Fulfill your book audience needs. Avoid the general or broad audience. Slant your book toward one primary audience.

2. Takes talent and writing ability.

Actually, the less writing know how you have, the better. Natural or organic writing is best. In your own voice answer your audience's concerns and problems.

If you can talk you can write. Readers want books written by a wise and savvy friend who will guide them gracefully to solutions to their challenges. They want passion and natural writing more than perfect syntax. In my early beginnings I felt I was only a trainer, a teacher, a coach. Not a writer! Like me, see a need and fill it--take seminar handouts and organize them into book chapters.

3. Takes an agent and traditional publisher.

Traditional publishers don't help the emerging author much. They turn down 99% of you. If you do get their blessing, they will not spend time and money on your marketing. and, this process takes two years or more. For cash flow and profits, go direct to your audience, get a web site, and market your book by writing short articles that relate and submitting them to top ezine directories and blogs. Build profits step by step.Start with an eBook, then the print version which costs you more.

4. Takes creativity.

Like me, maybe you write how to books. Self publishing pro Dan Poynter told me over 10 years ago that information can be repackaged for any particular target audience. It doesn't take creativity, it just takes some editing, rewriting, adding a few new ideas and resources, and putting it together in an organized, short and simple format to please the consumer who wants easy to read information.

5. You don't know it all.

Many emerging authors do it alone. That's not a good idea. Save time and money mistakes; read books by the pros, Dan Poynter at www.parapublishing.com.

Follow their shortcuts, how to steps, that make you a great writer to earn your place among great authors.

6. The book may not sell well.

Know that if you have a book that shares new, unique and useful information, it has enough significance to sell well.

Write an audience profile before you write your book, so your book has an angle, and will stand out from the crowd.

Ray Bradbury, author of "Fahrenheit 451" in just nine and a half days." advises us to write short articles or stories. They can become a longer book. He says if you write a page a day, you'll produce two to ten books a year.

Think of your benefits in writing a book! Your book brings you fame and fortune. People look to you for your expertise. Being an author has status too, often like a movie star's. Even if you don't become famous, you'll love the monthly profits you make from book sales. Even if you don't like to market you can do it online easily in your home based office with short articles like this one.

Ask if your doubts are really true. Don't stop yourself from a great adventure that will benefit you and the world.

Make a difference with your book applying the law of attraction to benefit your audience and your book's purpose too. Knowing your book's big picture by starting a book outline creates the foundation that helps you focus before writing each book chapter.

Follow These Tips on Writing a Book that Make Big Book Sales

1. Write a clear book title on your book cover with an angle.

Your working title or topic helps you focus and answer your buyer's reason for wanting the book. What number one problem will your book solve for your readers? Who are your readers?

Include them in your title or sub-title if possible. It's better to be clear than clever, but the ultimate winning combination is clear and clever. Which titles grab you? "Passion At Any Age: Twelve Ways to Unleash It," "Self-Promotion for the Creative Person." or "Quadruple your Book's Online Sales in Less Than Five Months." You have less than 10 seconds to grab your readers' attention. Your book cover and title must do that.

2. Write your book's thesis before you write a single chapter.

A thesis is one sentence stating the audience's main problem/challenge and how your book will solve it. Knowing the thesis before you write the book keeps you on track so you write focused, compelling, readable copy. Each book chapter must support your book's thesis. Take "How to Write your eBook Fast." One chapter title is "Market While You Write With Your Book's Nine Hot-Selling Points" to know before you write your book. Another is "Write your Chapters in Half the Time with Fewer Edits." A best book title often includes your thesis as this book does.

3. Know your best audience before you write your book.

Book sales grow when your book has an angle. You may think that everyone will want to read your book. Not true. Instead, choose your audience and solve a problem for them in your how to book. Your target audience wants particular, specific information rather than general. Stay focused with your audience's picture and profile at your workstation as you write. Now, each chapter will be focused, each word and paragraph will be organized and compelling. This idea transfers well to web sites and ecommerce too where key words rule.

4. Bypass the fear of low book sales.

Test your book's significance before you write it.

Know the ways to select a book topic that sells. Know what makes one book outsell another. Your book is significant if it has these elements: It presents useful information. It has the potential to make a difference in people's lives. It's lively or humorous. It helps answer important reader questions. It creates a deeper understanding of human nature. If your book has only two signifcances, it will be worth writing. With three or more, it's a potential best seller. Make your book a priority so you can express your mission helping others to a better life, and at the same time make a consistent lifelong income.

5. Know your book's 60 second marketing blurb before you write it.

Like a billboard or an elevator speech this 2-3 sentence blurb uses the law of attraction and presents benefits in a few sound bites. People won't listen past a minute. It's the hook, not the book. Compare your book to a famous author's book. Make your tell and sell blurb memorable.

Writing a readable book is much easier when you learn the pre planning steps. Remember, it doesn't matter where you start, it matters where you end up.

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