Efficient Book Writing: A Strategic Program for Improving Writing Productivity

How to write a book? What do I need to do to write more efficient and effective? How to overcome perfectionism and procrastination and become a productive writer?

Efficient Book Writing provides a step-by-step strategic guide to book writing productivity and success:

Plan your writing

• Identify your purpose


• Consider your target audience


• Examine your writing situation

Gather ideas and create your outline

• Start with yourself


• Keep an idea book


• Maintain a journal


• Do freewriting


• Hold brainstorming sessions: cubing, similes, journalists' questions, mapping


• Create your book's outline

Develop your content: from first draft to finished book

• Write your book bit by bit


• Speak your book


• Rewrite, revise, and edit your book

Systematize your writing process

• Identify your writing challenges


• Overcome perfectionism and silence your inner critic


• Make time for writing


• Develop your writing routine


• Choose a conducive environment to write

Get your writing done

• Start very small and build on it


• Take a writing challenge or retreat


• Use If-Then planning


• Create a sense of urgency


• Be accountable


• Reward yourself regularly

Intended primarily for aspiring and beginning writers, Efficient Book Writing helps you develop a strategic and systematic approach to start and complete your writing project with the least amount of stress and frustration, whether you are writing an article, blog, or book.

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