Transcript excerpt from a podcast interview (Julie Broad) offering practical strategies to write a book faster: establish a regular writing routine, use an outline, work with a writing coach to overcome self-doubt, and validate the book idea by testing the introduction with target readers to ensure the topic and angle will attract an audience.
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It does. And that's why I think that training yourself that this is writing time helps. Because now you don't have that, like, revving up your mind is just, okay, this is writing time, and you just start it. You have less of a barrier. I also find, like, again, the outline is critical. And, you know, I work with a writing coach now, and in my company, Book Launchers, all our clients work with a writing coach. Because I also find the other thing that stops you is questioning whether this is any good and doubting yourself and kind of that feeling and that, you know, that's so real for me. And I know it's real for a lot of our clients, which is why I brought in somebody to kind of coach you. And. And they'll say, you know, this. This could be a little stronger. Here's where you might need to make it stronger. But now you're not worried. Is this any good?
Did you find that? I mean, for you, you started noticing what was going on in the market, and you had a. You had your story. Because things that you were experiencing and through the conversations that you were having with people, you got feedback almost immediately that they were interested in. In doing that for someone that maybe has not done that yet. Do you think it's a vital piece to start to seek evidence that the topic that you're thinking of creating or writing about is going to be of interest? Because so often we can write something or create something that we think is going to be of interest, but unfortunately it is not. Do you want to share some strategies around that?
Yeah, that's a great topic. I think you really want to be careful that you don't write a book that has an audience of one. So I think while you want to write a book that has your unique spin, like the book that only you can write because it's your stories. At the same time, you really want to make sure that you have a great audience and that that audience is the people that you want to connect with. My best advice, without going in, you know, this could be an entire episode, but you really want to be testing it along the way. And the very first thing is test that introduction. So that introduction, if you're. What I found is whenever I would get lost in my writing, I would come back to my introduction, and it kind of grounded me. So again, that outline and then writing that introduction, if you've got a great introduct. And you'll know this because you'll send it out to the people who you think are your ideal readers and get their input. And if you're not getting consistently like, oh, my gosh, I can't wait until you write this book, well, then you might want to start over and kind of rethink your hook and rethink, you know, what this book is about. It might just be that it's really interesting to you, but not other people. And a lot of times that doesn't mean you have to change the content. So it's just an angle. Right. It's all about, you know, my book ultimately taught people how to invest into real estate, but the angle wasn't how to invest in real estate. The angle was, you know, real estate investing is really scary, and you can lose a lot of money if you do it wrong.
