Not so long ago, it was quite difficult to get your book published at all, either conventionally or online. until of course, Amazon changed all this with their Kindle platform. Many online entrepreneurs recognize the value of offering an ebook for sale, or either as a giveaway in exchange for an email address, but they don't always have the time to write a 10,000 word ebook. And this is where you come in. Normally, a client would give a subject area and some broad guidelines of what they'd like to see inside the book. It's up to the freelancer to research subject and to structure the chapters in a logical format.
So that's appealing to read and informative. Normally, the freelance writer also provides a formatted copy that is ready To upload to the internet. Most clients have a need for a nonfiction book. So this will be the focus of this lecture. Now let's assume that the client has given you the bare minimum required just a subject and some broad guidelines of what he needs. The first step is to outline the chapters to provide a framework of small chunks that you can fill in with content.
But what is the quickest ways to do this? I call this method the brainstorm by Thames. Let's start with the subject. I'll choose fishing. This will be the seed word for an initial brainstorming session. This part of the process will be fast.
Please place the seed word in a circle by itself. Now, think of any words you can associate with that subject and place them around it. It should be very easy to associate 10 words with the subject. Now choose one of the words and repeat the process to start writing, write 10 sentences as an introduction to the whole book. This introduction will include all the subjects indicated by the first 10 words of your brainstorming session. Let's call this the first level question.
Install. from each of these words, we can derive a chapter title. For example, different types of hooks, or sea fishing. Now we have chapter headings write 10 sentences at the beginning of each paragraph. And the further 10 sentences for each new words associated with the chapter titles. These are the second level of brainstorms.
The total sentence count will start to look something like this. For the book introduction, we have 10 sentences. These include the words from the first level of brainstorming. For chapter one, write 10 sentences as an introduction and another 10 for each second level. brainstorming word. So for the chapter, you'll have a total of 110 sentences.
Repeat this for all of the first level brainstorming words. And you'll end up with 10 chapters 110 sentences each. So the total sentence count will be 1110. We can say that the average number of words per sentence is round about eight. So your ebook will have approximately 8880 words. In the early days of online publishing, file formats were quite limited.
And they have to be precise. Amazon Kindle, and the other major platforms now accept multiple formats, such as ebook, PDF, and docx. However, unwanted variations in layout are quite common using e pub and PDF. The simplest way is to use minimal formatting in docx format, which is Microsoft Word, and is widely used. The detail of the formatting is beyond the scope of this course. But there are many free resources online that can help you.
Unless you're proficient in Word formatting, the most convenient option is to use a template. I've included a template in docx format, and also for Open Office at the end of this lecture. I've also included a step by step detailed in instruction of how to format using Word. And now that we've covered some main areas of content writing, we're going to move on to how we spread our presence online. In the next video, we're going to look at our profile and where you can post a profile.