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How To Write Your First eBook?

The first sentence is the most difficult part of writing.

When you consider the entire project, it appears to be an impossible task. That is why you must divide it into manageable tasks.

Consider climbing a mountain. You’re standing at its base, staring up at its vanishing summit in the clouds. How are you going to scale such a massive and dangerous mountain?

Isn’t there only one way to climb a mountain? one step at a time

Consider penning your ebook in a similar way. You must build it one step at a time, and one day you will stand on the top of the mountain with your head high in the clouds, having completed the final step.

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The first thing you should do, just like a mountaineer, is to get organized. However, instead of climbing equipment, you must organize your thoughts. Before you begin, there are some things you should do.

After you’ve got the list below, you’ll be ready to start writing your ebook.

The Basic And Most Important Steps in Writing an eBook are: 

First, decide on a working title for your ebook. Make a list of potential titles, and you’ll eventually find one that appeals to you. Titles assist you in focusing your typing on your subject matter and in foreseeing and trying to answer your reader’s questions.

Many nonfiction books include subtitles. Aim for clarity in your titles, but remember that cleverness always helps sell books. so long as it isn’t too cute. For instance, Treatments for Insomnia: Twenty Ways to Count Sheep. Alternatively: Get off the couch: eleven exercise plans to get you in shape.”

Next, create a thesis statement. Your paper is a statement or two that describes the problem you’re trying to address and how your manuscript will solve it. All chapters flow from your synopsis. You’ve laid the groundwork once you’ve perfected your thesis statement. Your book will grow chapter by chapter from that foundation.

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While writing your ebook, your dissertation will keep you focused. Remember that your thesis statement must be supported by all of the chapters. They shouldn’t belong in your book if they don’t. For example, your statement could be: We’ve all faced insomnia at some point in our lives, yet there are twenty tried-and-true methods and techniques to get you back to sleep.

Before you begin writing, make sure you have a compelling reason for writing your book.

Take these questions into consideration:

  • Does your book offer useful information, and is that information still current?
  • Will your book have a positive effect on the lives of your readers?
  • Is your book engaging, and will it retain the reader’s interest?
  • Does your book provide meaningful and significant answers?

If you can answer “ yes ” to these queries, you can be confident in your ebook’s potential.

Another critical step is to identify your target audience. You will be writing to this group of people, and they will dictate many aspects of your book, such as aesthetic, tonality, phrasing, and even length. 

Determine the age bracket of your readers, their broad gender, what they’re most engaged in, as well as the socioeconomic group from which they are primarily drawn. 

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Are they readers of fashion magazines or book reviews? Do they send notes in longhand or spend several hours online every day? The more specific you can be about your core audience, the simpler it will be to start writing your book.

Next, make a list of the reasons you are writing your ebook. Do you want to promote your business? Do you want to bring quality traffic to your website? Do you want to enhance your reputation?

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Then write down your goals in terms of publishing. Do you want to sell it as a product on your website, or do you want to offer it as a free gift for filling out a survey or for ordering a product? Do you want to use the chapters to create an e-course or use your ebook to attract affiliates around the world? The more you know upfront, the easier the actual writing will be.

Decide on the format of your chapters. In non-fiction, keep the format from chapter to chapter fairly consistent. Perhaps you plan to use an introduction for your chapter topic, and then divide it into four subhead topics. Or you may plan to divide it into five parts, each beginning with a relevant anecdote.

How to make your ebook “user friendly”

You must figure out how to keep your writing engaging. Often, anecdotes, testimonials, little stories, photos, graphs, advice, and tips will keep the reader turning the pages. Sidebars are useful for quick, accessible information, and they break up the density of the page.

Write with a casual, conversational tone rather than a formal tone, such as textbook diction. Readers’ respond to the feeling that you are having a conversation with them. Break up the length and structure of your sentences so you don?t hypnotize your readers into sleep. Sentences that are all the same length and structure tend to be a good aid for insomnia!

Good writing takes practice. It takes lots and lots of practice. Make a schedule to write at least a page a day. Read books and magazines about the process of writing, and jot down tips that jump out at you. The art of writing is a lifetime process; the more you write (and read), the better your writing will become.

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The better your writing becomes, the bigger your sales figures will become. In an ebook that is read on the screen, be aware that you must give your reader’s eye a break. You can do this by utilizing white space. In art classes, white space is usually referred to as “negative space.”

The reader’s eyes need to rest in the cool white oases you create on your page. If your page is too dense, your reader will quit it as soon as their eyes begin to tear.

Make use of lists, both bulleted and numbered. This makes your information easy to absorb and gives the reader a mental break from dissecting your paragraphs one after the other.

Finally, decide on an easy-to-read design. Find a font that’s easy on the eyes, and stick to that font family. Using dozens of fonts will only tire your readers out before they’ve gotten past your

introduction. Use at least one and a half line spacing, and text large enough to be read easily on the screen, but small enough so that the whole page can be seen on a computer screen. You will have to experiment with this to find the right combination.

Of course, don’t forget to run a spell and grammar check. You are judged by something as minor as correct punctuation, so don’t mess up a great book by tossing out semicolons randomly, or stringing sentences together with commas. (By the way, that’s called a “comma splice.”) 

Last of all, create an index and a bibliography. That’s it! You’ve written a book! Now all you have to do is publish your ebook online and wait for a download request from your website visitors.

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