Struggle to write your eBook?

A lot of people don't know where to start when trying to write an eBook.

I will give you a framework of 11 steps that will help you with the writing process.
1. Create a goal

You must have passion for what you are writing, you must care about delivering quality content.

What do you want to achieve with your eBook?

What do you want others to know?

What do you wish you had but can't find?
2. Generate ideas

These ideas must appeal to the readers and answer their questions or concerns.

Notice struggle patterns in your public audience.

Make sure to ease all that struggle with your guidance.
3. Research data for your ideas

Let's say you are writing an eBook on "How to go viral on Twitter".

And you lay down some of the strategies.

Make sure to then paste tweets that have gone viral following that exact same strategies.
4. Organize and structure your content

Every time I write an eBook I start with the table of contents.

I like to have a concise streamline that makes sense for my client's learning process.

Plan before you start writing.

But don't worry about having a perfect plan.
5. Imagine who you are trying to help

You are not writing for yourself.

You might think that what you know might be so simple it doesn't need to be laid out.

That's not true.

You are not writing for yourself, you are writing for those who need your knowledge.
Find out what are their goals and what are their struggles.

Write in a way that will help them achieve the former and get over the later.
6. Don't be afraid to create a first UGLY draft

It will not be perfect.

Your grammar will suck, you will not use the right words, you will not have the right style, you will not use the right punctuation or spacing.

And that's fine.

Focus on content first, edit after.
7. Give yourself time between drafts.

This is one of the reasons that my eBooks have DOZENS of updates and iterations.

Every time I go back to edit, I find something that can be improved.

When we're too deep in the process, we might lose sigh.

Disconnect to reconnect.
8. Constantly rewrite.

Don't be complacent.

Go back and write better if you can.

Improve what you already have, give yourself the pleasure of creating something worth reading.
9. Find the perfect title.

The title must capture the eBook essence.

It must resonate with the content inside.

It's not an easy task, to sum up, a whole book in a single title, but it's damn worth to invest some time in thinking in a good title.
10. Use short text

Don't daunt the reader.

Don't use massively extended phrases.

Use punctuation and spacing to make it a good reading.

Your readers MUST want to read line after line.

Get them hooked to your writing.
11. Publish

Even if it's not perfect.

You can always go back and DO better.

Perfectionism is the enemy of action, aim to have a MVP (minimum valuable product).

Imperfectly published is better than not published, never forget that, if it has value it should be published.
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