Blogging fiction isn’t as easy as blogging nonfiction. The process poses some inherent challenges, but they are just that—challenges. They aren’t obstacles. Therefore, if you want to blog a novel, you should go ahead and do so. How to Begin Blogging a Novel As with any other book you write, you should begin blogging your […]
Should You Blog Your Novel?
Many novelists feel intrigued by the idea of blogging a book. If they seek a traditional publishing deal, however, they usually have one major concern: If I blog my novel, will a publisher be interested in the manuscript? In fact, nonfiction writers have the same concern. No matter what type of book you blog, this […]
6-Step Writing Guide for Blogging or Writing a Book Quickly and Effectively
To blog a book in a month (or less), plan your content before you begin. The more detailed your plan, the more work you’ll complete during your writing periods, which means the faster you will complete your book. In fact, producing a business plan for your book provides the best writing guide for writing a […]
8 Questions to Help Produce and Evaluate a Business Plan for Your Blogged Book
The best way to start any book project, blogged or written some other way, is with a plan. In How to Blog a Book, I suggested you create a business plan for your book prior to writing a word and that you do this by going through what I called the “proposal process.” This entails […]
5 Tips to Keep You Publishing Posts After You Finish Blogging a Book
Carefully pick your blogged book topic. I always offer this bit of advice first when I teach people how to blog a book. Why? Because you have to continue publishing posts long after you finish blogging your book. How do you keep coming up with ideas for posts after your book is complete? These 5 […]
8 Ways to Test Market Your Book Idea
In both How to Blog a Book and my new book, The Author Training Manual: Develop Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self-Publish Effectively, I suggest you evaluate your book idea before you begin blogging or writing it. Even if you spend time doing so, you may still lack certainty […]
How to Turn Your Love of Journaling Into a Blogged Book
Humans have had an inclination to write down their experiences almost since the beginning of time, it seems. We’ve kept diaries and journals, writing in them regularly, mostly for our own purposes and doing so, for the most part, with the express intention of keeping them private. The advent of the Internet Age, however, changed […]
Why You Should Know the Length of Your Book Before You Blog It
Someone once said no good book is ever too long, and no bad book is ever too short. That goes for ebooks as well as print book. In my last post I discussed the trend to write more books but also to write shorter. But how do you know how long your book should be? […]
How to Start Your Blogged Book (or Any Book) Using a Mind Map
Many people don’t write books because they simply don’t know how to start. They possess an idea for a book, but they don’t know what to do with it. They can’t imagine how they get from initial idea to finished manuscript. Maybe you fall into this category. No worries. There is a way to easily […]
What it Takes to Succeed as an Author
It takes more than just a good idea and good writing to produce a successful book. It also takes more than the ability to develop a large and engaged fan base—an author platform. And it takes more than an Author Attitude. To become a successful author you need to produce a marketable book. That means […]
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