7 Steps to Write Your Nonfiction Book in 40 Hours

Like most things in life, there is a formula behind the process.There is a formula for writing your book very fast and efficiently.There are a few different steps and stages- it is about starting off with a big idea and scaling and refining down to the individual points and chapters.In the beginning: get your words down onto paper first, and then get it right. Once you've got everything down, then you can refine, expand and polish. Get it all down first so you have less things to remember and then you can begin to connect it all together.When you use this strucutre, you can begin to outline your entire book and you define what research exactly you need. When you know what you're after, you'll get it straight away and reduce the time needed to write a book. As you plan out your entire book, you know what topics you're going to talk about straight away, thus reduing the time needed to write your book and making it possible to write it under 40 hours.1) Start off with the overall idea.Define your idea, what the topic of the book is and what you are going to write about. This is more to do with planning and less so concerned with writing.As an example, in this blog post I will be talking about an upcoming book I've got planned. The book is about creating viral content and the 5 different benchmarks needed to create viral and evergreen content.My book is going to be called Going Viral, and it will expand upon the V.R.I.N.E principles that I have learnt over the years. V.R.I.N.E is the acronymfor the different principles and guidelines to create your content with2) Define 15 chapters.These chapter covers all the necessary points and pieces of information that the reader needs in order to attain what you are talking about throughout your book.So, for my book I could use the following chapters:Why you need content to go viral for your business.Why go viralHow to go viralIntroducing VRINEExplaining how they work over all, with examples.Explaining V, with examples.Explaining R, with examples.Explaining I, with examples.Explaining N, with examples.Explaining E, with examples.Piecing them all togetherChanging face of the internet contentHow it can be used in content marketingwhere I developed theseShowing them in action.3) Cut it down to 10 chapters and put them into logical order.This defines the outline of your book and the major chapters and talking points you'll cover.The changing face of marketing thanks to the internet and social media.Why you need content to go viral for your business.Introducing VRINE.Show them in action and give good examples of each.Explaining how they work over all, with examples. Explain how they work in conjunction with the chasm.Explaining V, with examples.Explaining R, with examples.Explaining I, with examples.Explaining N, with examples.Explaining E, with examples.4) Define 18 ingredients for each chapter.These 18 ingredients are different topics, conversations, points, examples, studies, findings, research, actionable points, etc. These are what make up the paragraphs and the body of each chapter.This is a little difficult to do, as it really gets you thinking, but the more you come up with the more rounded your entire book is.I'll use these two chapters as examples:Why you need content to go viral for your business.How content can be used to educate your audience.Get SEO traction.Be visible.Increase your brand awareness.Ensure people know who you are.Share knowledge with your customersAttract clients and new customers through educationPackaging and sharing your knowledge so people can see you or your business as an authority/ expert.When you go viral it gets traffic and potential customers to your website.When you are an expert: people will value your time and input more and you can begin to charge a higher price, because people will see you as the go-to person/ business that knows what you're talking about.When you seen as an expert, opportunity comes to you and it has an additional compounding affect on your business.Where to go viral for your kind of business (twitter, facebook, etc).The differences between each social media platform for evergreen content.This is why you need a blog, because each social media is like an embassy, but your blog and website is your HQ.Having viral content adds credibility to your business.Viral content can be used to educate non customers too.When you go viral: search engines can find you easier when people search for you.Going viral is the best feeling. Your content is being seen around the world.Explaining E, with examples.E stands for evergreen.When you have evergreen content people will likely be searching for it all the time, as opposed to seasonally.Define evergreen problems your customers may have, and write about them.Examples include most songs, because people are likely to listen to that song again and again.Just create more evergreen content, whether videos, books, info graphics and blogs. This blog is a good example of evergreen content.Evergreen can be stuff that educational or fun.You'll need evergreen content to get a sustainable traffic to your website, which will keep your business alive.The more often your blog and create content, the more traffic will come. As the content you create has a compounding affect on your business.Evergreen is content that people will always be searching for. Things related to Christmas may only be searched near to, or at, Christmas time. But if you have something that is seasonal and that people are likely to search all year round, then you can get more consistent traffic this way.Differences between evergreen and seasonal contentHow to define and create evergreen content.Different titles and naming conventions that can help get attention.Copyright, clickbait and how these things can be used.Some examples of evergreen videos and blogs.Evergreen content gives you consistent sales and traffic.When you create evergreen, you're doing the work once and getting paid forever.Make the content online and it'll be found by people when you use the correct and relevant topics and tags.People may binge watch your content, when they like what you've got to say and like your content.5) Reduce the ingredients down to 15 and put them in logical order.take the 18 existing ingredients and reduce them down to 15 and put them in a logical sequence that would make sense to the reader.This provides the sequence of topics for each chapter. At this point you can stop, because when you've got the 15 for each chapter, you can then begin writing about these ingredients and creating the first draft.You could go further, because step 7 creates interesting titles that can be used as sub headings for each chapter.Explaining E, with examples.E stands for evergreen.Define evergreen problems your customers may have, and write about them.Evergreen is content that people will always be searching for. Things related to Christmas may only be searched near to, or at, Christmas time. But if you have something that is seasonal and that people are likely to search all year round, then you can get more consistent traffic this way.When you have evergreen content people will likely be searching for it all the time, as opposed to seasonally.Examples include most songs, because people are likely to listen to that song again and again.Evergreen can be stuff that educational or fun.Just create more evergreen content, whether videos, books, info graphics and blogs. This blog is a good example of evergreen content.Differences between evergreen and seasonal contentYou'll need evergreen content to get a sustainable traffic to your website, which will keep your business alive.The more often your blog and create content, the more traffic will come. As the content you create has a compounding affect on your business.Copyright, clickbait and how these things can be used.How to define and create evergreen content.Different titles and naming conventions that can help get attention.When you create evergreen, you're doing the work once and getting paid forever.People may binge watch your content, when they like what you've got to say and like your content.6)  Make the ingredients sensationalAs you do this it makes them sound more interesting and appealing to the reader.Explaining E, with examples.Evergreen, you need evergreen content.Define consistent problems your audience has.Evergreen is content that people will always be searching for.When you have evergreen content people will likely be searching for it all the time, as opposed to seasonally.Examples of Evergreen content.Anything can be Evergreen.Create more evergreen and let it compound.Evergreen vs Seasonal content.Evergreen content creates a healthy business.The more often your blog and create content, the more traffic will come.Good wording and using click bait.Define and create evergreen content.Different titles and naming conventions.You're doing the work once and getting paid forever.Fans may binge watch your content.7) Turn them into questions that gets the read think, pondering and piquing their interest.You could use the questions that you create here as the sub headings for each chapter.Each of those questions are the sub headings for each chapter and the talking points to each chapter.Turning the ingredients into questions helps to pique a reader's attention. Lets say you have a potential customer looking through the contents page and as they see some of these questions they are more likely to buy the book. But, from a practical point of view, you have enough topics to begin writing your book.Also, by positioning your ingredients as questions it allows you to write about more things which can increase your word and page count, if you are so included to do so.Explaining E, with examples.Why do you need evergreen content?What kind of problems does your customer audience have? These can be evergreen content.What are people always searching for?People care more about evergreen than most kind of content..Examples of Evergreen content.Anything can be Evergreen!Let it compound.Evergreen vs Seasonal content. WHO will win? YOU decide!A healthy business need evergreen content.How much traffic do you want?How can we use click bait?What kind of evergreen content do you want?Whats the different titles and naming conventions we can use?How many times do you want to do the work?How do you get your fans to binge watch your content?Once you've written down everything, all you need to do is polish the book. Whether the information, grammar, pacing, accuracy etc. Now you've got a draft for your book, it is a case of making it better.The principle behind following these steps is that you get your ideas down and then you get it right.A few strategies you could use for writing your book within 40 hours is either thePomodoro technique, where you take an egg timer and set it to 25 minutes and you see how much work you can get done in 25 minutes.Write for 25 minutes and then take a 25 minute break, and keep alternating until your book is finished.Or write each ingredient in bursts of 5 minutes at a time.Using a disciplined structure will help you write your book within 40 hours. Or the 40 hours could be spread over the course of a few days. You could write for 40 hours straight, although I have not done this before...What do you think? 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