Julie Broad identifies the three hardest parts of writing nonfiction: the manuscript itself, surviving editing, and marketing after. She recommends hiring help for writing, preparing emotionally for edits, and thinking of marketing as serving readers rather than selling.
Are you about to write a book and think writing is going to be the hardest part? Or maybe you've written it and you're still finding it hard. You're probably not alone. Stick around and I'll share what I see as the most difficult parts of writing a book. Hey, I'm Julie the book broad with book launchers.com a fantastic company that works with nonfiction authors to write, publish, and sell a fantastic nonfiction book. Wee. You've decided to write a nonfiction book and you're excited. Then you sit down to write and it's painful. This video will help you get started, and this one will help you write it faster. But sometimes it's like trying to make kale or spinach taste as good as chocolate. Your chocolate. Oh, your chocolate. It's just not happening. Not surprisingly, writing your book is definitely one of the of the three hardest parts of writing a book. If you want to make it way easier on yourself, I highly recommend you do one of the following. Hire book Launchers. We have great writing coaches and cheerleaders to make it easier and more fun. 2. Hire book launchers. We have options where our writers will take your transcribed podcasts, transcribed videos, or presentations or your blog posts and turn it into a book for you. Or number three, hire book Launchers. We have great ghostwriters. I think you get the point of how to make it easier, but at the end of the day, writing takes time, money, and. Or anything. But it's all part of what will make your book great. Now, the second part of writing a book, that is the hardest, and many of the authors I know, including myself, really struggle with this part. It's surviving the editing process. When you finish that first draft, you feel an enormous sense of accomplishment and relief. You feel like your book is almost done. Then you send it off to an editor and it comes back. Well, it comes back utterly covered in red. There's questions, there's changes, there's suggestions, and. And emotionally, it probably makes you remember every other time in your life when you felt like you weren't good enough. Physically, it probably feels like you got kicked by a donkey. I've never been kicked by a donkey, thankfully, but I think it would suck. Okay, so this really does suck. One of our awesome clients went through a pretty low period as she got through her editing her fantastic book, the Elephant in the Gym. I put it to her in terms she could relate to, and I thought you might relate to them, too. Editing is like going for those long training runs in the blistery cold rain. It feels awesome when you finish it, but not a second sooner. So if you're preparing yourself for where you're gonna need mental strength, save some for the editing. Even professional writers get manuscripts back from editors that look like someone puked red all over it. Just remember the wise words of Stuart Smalley, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me. Oh, Saturday Night Live used to be so funny. Finally, the third most painful part. It's marketing your book. Getting reviews, finding people to talk about your book, looking for opportunities to share your book without being annoy. Annoying. Asking people to review your book, writing great copy for your book descriptions, keeping your Amazon author page up to date, testing and running Amazon ads, getting book events planned, asking for reviews. You get the picture. It doesn't end. And when you stop, your book slowly but almost surely stop selling. Or at least it dwindles a lot. So the bad news is the pain of marketing your book pretty much never ends as long as you want to get results from your book. The good news is that you can totally control how you think about this part of it and do it with enthusiasm. I I like to think of book marketing as helping tons of people who can afford a $20 book but may never be able to hire my company for my full services. If you believe in the content in your book and that it's worth sharing, share it enthusiastically. And ask people to review your book. Because it's all in the name of getting your book into the hands of people you can help. So make it fun. Take breaks. Find fun partnerships. And if you've got secrets to making hard work fun, share that below in the comments. Subscribe to the Channel Smash that thumbs up button. If you like this video, turn on the notifications so you know when a new video comes out. Because if you comment on the day a video comes out, you'll be entered to win some fantastic book launchers. Swag. See you on the next one. Chocolate.
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