The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book

You are not there as an author to just give the facts. Facts are great. Facts are important, facts are the bedrock of your book—but people don’t learn through facts and people don’t engage through facts. People learn through story and example. They make decisions about how to change their life with emotion. And that’s what you need to do to have a

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.

Question #1: How do you want your book to serve your readers? What will they get out of it? While your book can get you myriad benefits, the content of the book is not for you—it’s for the reader.

Another thing we explained to Deb is the saying that “art is never done, it’s only abandoned.” The point is that being perfect is literally impossible. All you can do is the very best job you can right now, and then put it out to help your audience, and you’re done.

Most books are now sold digitally, categories don’t matter as much, and the majority of physical books are not sold in bookstores, but rather in non-book retail stores like Costco and Walmart that don’t even have categorized shelves.

the #1 thing that separates those who finish their books from those who do not is having the proper expectations going in.

Now, most books are published outside of the old, traditional models, and most nonfiction books are not monetized directly. Here is modern reality: most nonfiction authors make the majority of their money from other things that a book gets them, and not from sales of their books.

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.

The fear of judgment is crippling to many authors, and prevents them from either writing their book, or from writing the book that they really want to write, or telling the stories they want to tell in their book. Here’s the simple fact about books: if no one at all disagrees with what you are saying, then you aren’t saying anything worth putting i