Want To Write A Book? Begin With A Blog (part One)

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They say that inside every person is a book waiting to be written. While I’m not exactly certain who “they” are, I believe they have it right on this one. Everyone you know (even you) has a body of knowledge that, if properly organized and structured, could comprise a very informative, valuable and needed non-fiction book.

I had to get that non-fiction part out there because fiction is a whole different animal. While I love to read a good story, the fact remains that non-fiction far outsells all fiction categories put together. Moreover, non-fiction books solve problems that people want and need to have sold.

So while fiction’s purposes of entertaining, enlightening and educating us, are all worthwhile, they are simply not sought after, or as marketable, as much as non-fiction.

But writing a book sounds like a daunting task. Heck, let’s just be honest here, writing a book IS a daunting task. No matter how you look at it.

However writing a blog can turn into a book if you know how to do it. Blogging involves writing about your topic in short, bite-sized segments that just flow easier. Also, blogs are interactive and allow you to create a dialogue with your readers as you go.

Let us take a look at the first three ways blogging can put your book-writing project on auto pilot:

First, use your blog to move from a general topic to a specific topic. When you start writing your blog, you may not thoroughly know your subject matter. You may be feeling your way in the dark at first. But as you write your blog, get comments from readers, and develop your material over time.

Second, simply commit to writing three to five short posts per week. The material will accumulate at a rate that will astonish you. Even if your posts are only two to three paragraphs each, and you respond to readers’ comments, your blog will literally write your book for you.

Encourage the aforementioned comments. People will ask questions, provide you with new information, with real stories, testimonials and give you valuable feedback to help you determine what subtopics they want to read more about.

In the next article on this topic, we will discuss how to build an audience BEFORE your book is published, how to draw pre-publication traffic and interest to your blog, and how to network with other bloggers to gain more exposure and material for your book.

Charles Brown is freelance writer with an unhealthy curiosity about nearly everything. He has used article marketing to promote a number of internet businesses. If you must, you can visit him at his Squidoo lens, http://www.squidoo.com/articlemarketing4traffic Getting Targeted Traffic With Article Marketing

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