Book Writing Considerations: Should You Write the Book You're Thinking About?

Do you have a book idea and you're trying to figure out whether you should write that book or not? Don't worry. If you want the honest answer to whether you should write the book you're thinking about writing, then this video is for you. Hey there. I'm Julie, the book broad from Book Launchers. We're your professional self publishing team helping you write, publish and promote a nonfiction book that will help you have a huge impact on your readers. And done right will help you grow your brand, build your business, and and make you money. The best part, you keep all rights and royalties. We maybe haven't met, but I'm quite certain you have an incredible story. Even if you don't believe it yet, I know it's true. Perhaps you're thinking of turning that story into a book. Or maybe you want to share your experience in order to help others. Or maybe you want to write a book because you know it's a powerful funnel to lead people to your business so you can generate a whole lot more income for yourself while having an impact. Whatever that book idea is, you're probably wondering if it's worth investing the time, the money, and the energy into writing, producing and promoting a book. Because let's face it, even if you cut corners and you don't produce the best book you possibly can, it takes effort. Books are big projects. And if you truly care about creating the best book and having an impact on your readers, then it's going to be one heck of a journey that you need to be committed to completing. So should you do it well? I've covered market research before. I'll link to that video at the end. So if your question is, will it sell? That's a different question and a different video. Should you do it well, that's what we're talking about today. And what I suggest is sit yourself down in the mirror and really figure out what you want to achieve. Seriously, pull out that mirror and go all Stuart Smalley on yourself. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me Self, what do you want to achieve? Of course you want to be a New York Times bestseller or a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Who wouldn't love that? But why? And do you really need that curated list title to achieve what you want to achieve? What are you trying to achieve? Build your business, boost your income, build a name that's more widely known in your industry. And if those are your goals, what are you really hoping that does for you? Media expert, paid speaker, Just Keep drilling down until you find what you really want the outcome of that bestseller title to be. Because you can't control if you get that bestseller title, but you can have a direct impact as into you can't control if you get that bestseller title, but you can directly control things that set you up to be a paid speaker or build your platform. So pull out a piece of paper. You're going to write down four questions and from there you should be able to figure out if you really should write a book. Question 1 this is all around your goal. What is the most important goal for writing a book? You probably have more than one goal, so you can put them in an order of priority. Question 2 this is around audience looking at your goals. Who do you need to write the book for? In other words, who will be your ideal reader in order to achieve that most important goal? The third question is around outcome. What outcome can you offer that ideal reader with your story or Your experience? Question 4 this is whether those are compatible. Can you see how those things fit together? If not, can you tweak it so that all of it does fit together? If it's still a no, then maybe you shouldn't write the book you're thinking about. Or you should get help to develop a concept that will fit together. So your goals and your readers and what you can offer those readers fit together. If you can see how it fits together, a final check is are you excited about it? If you are, then you probably should write that book. Let me give you an example of one I've seen that I've struggled with. The goal was wants to be a paid speaker and build her business as a work life balance consultant. The audience was parents who are estranged from one of their children. The outcome was for the parents who know they played a role in what's happened, that they have to take responsibility for it. Compatibility. The audience and the outcome go together. But I struggled to see how a story of estrangement and moving on from that estrangement will lead to paid speaking or really how it leads to being hired as a work life balance coach. I'm not saying it won't, but most paid speaking gigs come from large corporations or associations. So when you look at the audience, you have to consider who has an audience of those people and would they pay to speak. You also want to think about whether that audience is a good fit for hiring you for work life coaching. So the author could write the book. But I feel like hope would be a bit of a strategy that that book would lead to paid speaking, maybe a little bit of tweaking and she could have a book that would work. Here's one did work and man was this a fun one to see. During launch the goal Share his expertise to expand his online training and his training offerings. The audience, first responders and other emergency responders. The outcome to be able to save lives and reduce property damage by knowing how to efficiently and effectively get through locked obstacles during emergencies. Compatibility? Yeah. His courses offer the same outcome as the book, and his audience is clearly one that needs to know how to get through locked obstacles. His book Tactical Lock Picking A systemized approach for responding to locked obstacles during emergencies. And that book launched in his launch week. It felt like Pat Watson week at Around Book Launchers because my team was landing him podcast interviews, a featured webinar training sessions, a feature on fire engineering, and so much more because his book fit perfectly in every way and even with a big price tag for the print copy, I think it's $50 in the US and $70 in Canada. It's selling well because the market message match is perfect. And I can't speak yet for Pat whether it's achieving his goal fully of growing his training, but considering he was landing training sessions in launch week from the promos, I'm feeling pretty confident we'll be hearing from him in a few months. That's working really, really well. So should you write the book you're thinking about? I don't know. What I can tell you is that you probably have an incredible story and that might make a great book. But should you put in the time, money and energy to create a book from that story? That's up to you. That's why I don't know. But if it will help you achieve your goals, connect with an audience that you can an important outcome for, and it all works in harmony for you, then I think you will be very, very glad you did write a book. If it doesn't all fit together and you still want to write it, go for it. Only you can really answer the question of whether you should write the book you're thinking about. Just because it doesn't work perfectly doesn't mean you shouldn't. It just means that it may not perfectly achieve your goals. Your story is very valuable. But remember, people read the book to learn about themselves, not to learn about you. You must write a book for the reader if you want to sell that book. Of course, if you want help or you want to chat about your book idea, you can set up a call with us right here. Book launchers.com apply. Do you have a book you're wondering about? Let's chat about it in the comments below and on your way to comments, smash that thumbs up button. Go ahead, try it. It feels so good. And when you comment the day a video is released, you'll be entered to win some sweet noboringbooks swag, like our no Boring Books mug where coffee, tea and hot chocolate are proven to taste better. New videos every Tuesday and Friday, so make sure you subscribe to the channel and turn those notifications notifications on so you don't miss any of those videos. Well, it was such a delight to spend time with you today. I would love to spend more time with you. This video right here gives you the lowdown on those bestseller lists. If you're thinking that is your goal, then this video is a must watch. And this video right here is all about market research to help you figure out if the book you want to write will sell. Either way, these two videos are a guaranteed good time. So click on the one you want to watch, I'll put on the coffee and I'll see you there.