How to Just Start Writing

Honestly, a book is just a bunch of words. Anyone can write a book. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make any sense to anyone but you, or if only your neighbor gets to read it. Go buy a notebook, a pen or pencil and JUST START WRITING! You can write a book! 

Many times when people ask famous authors, “How do I write a book?” they actually mean, “How do I write a good book that will get published and read?” The answer to that question is a bit more complex. But not to worry, anyone can do it! It takes work. I don’t mean twenty minutes during your lunch break once a month. I mean hard work – the kind that makes you think, write and re-write everything you create. Garrett Pierson, in his book How to Write a Book ASAP, shares some strategies that can teach how to just start writing your first book.

There is no secret writing club or underground technique, however, which eliminates the amount of time it takes to write a book. And you, as an author, must take that time constantly and consistently. Your time must be spent pre-writing, writing, editing, re-writing, and researching. As the author of three bestsellers, Scott Berkun, has stated, “It takes effort to learn the ropes, send out smart queries, and do the research required to both craft the idea for a book, and then to propose it effectively.”

A good tip to just start writing is to keep a notebook or recording device with you at all times. That way you can write down any inspiration that comes to you or anything you hear that sounds like it could be relevant to your book. Even if you don’t use all the words you write down, being constantly on the lookout for insight and promptings will take you that much closer to thinking like and eventually becoming a writer. 

When all is quiet, spend some time meditating. Picture yourself as a published author. Envision yourself in a year or less signing your book, doing radio and TV interviews, talking with movie producers. Then, when you believe you can do it, get busy and just start writing.

Why Use a Professional Writing Training Course

If you’re writing your first book, you need some specific tools that can save you time, effort and money. Professionals like Garrett Pierson have worked through all the problems that potential authors encounter and provide the information necessary to jump over, go around, and plow through any would-be obstacles.

In this article we have listed four tools that training courses like How to Write a Book ASAP provide.

Organizational Tools
If you can’t organize your writing activities around the rest of your life, you will never become a published author. Training courses help would-be authors set the parameters they need to get on task and stay there. It’s like having your own personal weight-loss trainer – except with this guy could help you become a published author instead of fit.

Linguistical Tools
Most of us get by with what grammar rules we learned in high school or college and with what spell checkers fix for us. But then, most of us aren’t authors either. A writing course will help you with grammar, sentence structure, jargon, character dialects and synonyms. These professionals have done it before and they can walk you through the same steps they’ve walked to help you cross that published-author finish line.

Social Tools
Just because you know how to write doesn’t mean you know what your audience likes to read. Coaches can give you specific attributes that certain people likely to read your book are looking for when they read. For example, what percent of dialog should the first chapter have as compared to the last chapter?  Or, how many sentences, on average, should a how-to instructional book have per paragraph? These and many other relevant questions can be answered by an experienced professional.

Motivational Tools
This includes motivation for the writer as well as for the reader! In most cases, readers can sense whether the writer is feeling and fully expressing herself or just going through the motions of writing. What should be included in the title, subtitle, and back cover to entice a reader to purchase your book? A writing coach can help figure stuff like that out – and still do it in a style that is all yours!

Writing courses like those provided by Garrett Pierson can help you become a published author fast. All you need is the required and proven organizational, linguistical, social, and motivational tools to achieve your goal of writing your first book.