The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
Also, opposition helps you find and galvanize your own audience of people, like Shannon did. If there are loud and angry people on only one side of a debate, it probably means the other side simply does not have a spokesperson. Your book puts you in that role.
Zach Obront • The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
You want to write your book to help other people solve a problem that you used to have, one that’s very painful to you. Helping those people is a big part of your motivation. And picturing those people in need, and you letting them down if you do not write your book, is a very powerful motivator. Using this motivation turns out to be the ultimate f
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The objectives necessitate a certain audience. The audience have their needs that must be met by the book. And the book idea must attract and provide value to the audience, so you’ll reach the objectives you want to achieve.
Zach Obront • The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
“The task is not so much to see what no one has seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” —Schrödinger
Zach Obront • The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
The Three-Step Editing Method We recommend a three-step editing process: Make-It-Right Edit: Make sure everything is in there, in the right order, and it all makes sense. Line-by-Line Edit: Go deep into the chapters, paragraphs, and sentences to make sure it says exactly what you want. Read-Aloud Edit: Read the manuscript out loud—preferably to a p
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It’s an awful feeling to know I had these books in me and never got to them, only because I was afraid to write them.
Zach Obront • The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
The key here is to focus on your reader and how to best help them. If you’re crystal clear about what reader your book will serve, and how they will be served, then the ideal book idea to reach that audience should emerge. Once you have that, it’s easy to see if other ideas fit or not, and then finalize your book idea.
Zach Obront • The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
Imposter Syndrome is when someone—even a very accomplished person with a lot of experience and credentials—believes they don’t actually know what everyone thinks they know. They believe their ideas are either wrong or invalid, or that everyone already knows what they know.
Zach Obront • The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
The reader absolutely does want to hear your story…but only the parts that are relevant to why they are reading your book.