Review: WELL-WRITTEN AND CONCISE METHOD FOR GETTING AN EBOOK WRITTEN
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
I bought this book in the morning and was able to finish it within a couple hours. The book is an easy read, well-written and organized with a nice approach to writing an ebook in 14 days. I liked the structure it focuses on, writing the ebook in essay style, as I have read a similar approach from Nancy Hendrickson in HOW TO WRITE FOR KINDLE: A NONFICTION BOOK IN 72 HOURS OR LESS. The basic idea is you have five main parts in the book, break each part up into five segments [more or less] with each segment being about 600 words each. Works very well for making short, snappy pieces of a book. Writing is a laborious process, and for those of us who do not believe in hiring a Ghost Writer to do the writing and then sticking your name on it [I’m one of those people] having a process to follow is very efficient and reduces the stress of writing while staring at the blank page.I have read more books on self-publishing in the last year than I can count, everything from creating an outline to marketing to finding your special niche; while they all vary somewhat, there is a common formula that is agreed upon my most writers in the business. To break it down simply into six steps:1. DO YOUR RESEARCH [GOOGLE, TWITTER, FACEBOOK, BLOGS]2. GET IT WRITTEN3. EDITING/REWRITE4. GET IT PACKAGED [ECOVER, DESCRIPTION]5. START SELLING IT! [MARKETING, GET REVIEWS. FREE PROMO]6. REPEAT!Terry goes through most of this in the book. The one thing could have been added into this book was some advice on time management and tips on editing and rewrites. There was nothing mentioned about rewrites which I believe to be a big part of the writing process. This may be included in the “writing from days 2 to 11 but if not, this needs to be a part of the process and will therefore take longer. Other writers I know of who sell a lot of books on Kindle devote at least a week if not two or more to rewriting twice before getting it edited by professionals.All in all, for the price of .99, this is a good book to have on your digital shelf. Although it doesn’t cover many of the other areas in detail [promo, marketing] it fulfills the purpose in giving the writer a good method to apply to getting a book done that fills about 10,000 words. I will try this method and hope it works out.