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Writing course: Write and Publish Your First Book in the Next 30 Days

This is a course I plan on releasing here in the second week of January. This is a rough outline, not final yet.

    1. Why you need to write a book

    Introduction: You are already a writer. This is exciting,

    Who am I?

    The reasons why it's good to write a book.

    This is what we will cover in this course.

    Will I really write a book in 30 days?

    Is AI my competitor?

    Finally, everyone can write a book.

    2. The Best Way to START Writing a Book

    -WHO ARE YOU? WHY ARE YOU? WHY NOW?

    who are you?

    - why are you?

    - why now?

    DO YOU USE THE WARREN BUFFETT 5/25 RULE?

    MYTHS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MAKE WRITING YOUR FIRST BOOK EASIER

    --- don't worry about quiality

    - don't worry about length

    - Don't worry about intros and outros

    - don't worry about chapter order

    TIME MANAGEMENT

    - where will you find the time?

    - always bring it back to who are you? why are you? why now?

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    3. Storytelling: why every book and blog post, no matter what the topic, needs stories

    - the arc of the hero

    - call to action

    - reluctant here

    - an inciting incident

    - meet friends and enemies

    - greater and greater problems

    - until finally the greatest problem

    - turn back and tell the tale.

    The arc of the here in one line:

    hero gets call to action, is in pain so is forced to take that all, goes on a journey, is incompetent at first, then meets more and more people who will help him, is at mercy of the antagonist once or twice (more intensely the second time) around 2/3 or 3/4 of the way in, and then must make his way back, new and improved.

    And that’s the plot of Star Wars, the Bible, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, the Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, The Firm, On the Road, and 50 Shades of Grey and any great textbook.

    The arc of the hero is a fractal. It occurs in a book. In a chapter. In a paragraph. In a tweet.

    Don’t even open up your mouth if you aren’t about to say the arc of the hero in a sentence.

    Else…listen.

    Romance novel:

    - man and woman meet as quickly as possible

    - will they get together? won't they?

    - increasing obstacles - maybe he lied, maybe she did, maybe they are still engtangled in some bad relationship, the obstacles get bigger and bigger. Finally, ti seems as if they will never get together,. That's it, it's over. Finally, they get together and they live happily ever after. secondary arc - he's a vampire and vampires hate that he's falling for a human.

    - What does this have to do with Non-fiction?

    - examples of from fiction, non-fiction, articles, and even tweets

    4. How to write a good story.

    - end every chapter on a cliffhanger.

    - short paragraphs

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    5. 44 rules every writer knows

    https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/10-more-rules-of-writing/

    https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/33-unusual-tips-become-better-writer/

    Story of Sanket

    the 12 best first lines

    writing intros

    F-K score

    Be curious about your writing : Example: if writing a story about persuasion, what if you are a door to door salesman, what if you are persuading your spouse, what if you are persuading an audience you are speaking to (well then, how do you give a good speech?), what if you are persuading through email, is it better to include a video or link out to other research? If you are writing romance, how did the male hero's sisters treat him? What were his parents like? What is he insecure about? What were the woman's past relationships like? Has she ever been betrayed? What is the financial situation of both?

    Show don't tell with emotion

    Who are the characters in a non-fiction story.

    your own story: Include your own story of having bad habits and the consequences. Story telling is everything.

    A book is not a list of habits and research.

    IT MUST contain your story. Your heartache. Your hardship. Leave your blood stains on every page.

    6. Four book concepts that can be written in a month Each one of these will require on screen video with me narrating

    - the Academic Paper technique

    - The Jesus Diet technique

    - The 101 technique

    - The Habits technique

    - The podcast technique

    7. For each concept HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR BOOK USING NOTEPD TO TRACK YOUR IDEAS USING NOTEPD TO OUTLINE YOUR BOOK USING NOTEPD TO WRITE YOUR BOOK

    - what is the concept

    - how to outline each chapter

    - how to write each chapter

    - how to write the intro and the end

    8. how to write an introduction

    What you will learn

    The six Us.

    https://lifehacker.com/master-the-six-us-to-perfectly-pitch-an-idea-1606415671

    Story

    3) THE WORST THING.

    Pick the worst thing in your life.

    Start at the worst moment of the worst thing. (e.g. “And then I was caught!” or… “And then I figured out the right way to kill myself.”)

    The worst thing in your life, this year, this month. Today.

    Ask someone with a heart attack, “Why did you get a heart attack?”

    They never say, “Clogged arteries”. Never. 100%.

    They say, “My wife left me.” Or, “Work has gotten more stressful”. Or, “I’m unhappy with my friends.”

    The body is connected to your story. Writing heals the body.

    The “worst thing” is the clogged artery of your soul.

    9. How to publish your book and why your book should be "professionally" self-published.

    - get a line editor

    - get a book editor

    - get a cover

    - get an inside designer

    - you're going to make a kindle , paperback, hardcover, and audiobook

    - how to do it using kdp.amazon.com

    THI SECTION WILL HAVE ONLINE VIDEOS

    10. How to market your book.

    SPOKE-AND-WHEEL

    - blogs

    - speaking

    - podcasts

    - quora

    - twitter

    - facebook

    11. 10 Mistakes to avoid as a writer

    12. The one metric that can improve your writing instantly

    13. Why 30 Days? Is it even possible?

    14. 10 ways to avoid writer's block

    https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/overcome-writers-block/

    15. How to Write for a Living

    - how to turn a hobby into a full time living with several real life examples.

    https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/how-to-write-for-a-living/

    16. Supplementary interviews from great writers

    Ken Follett - sales of over 150mm books in the thriller genre

    Julia Cameron - developer of the writing pages technique

    Chuck Pahlaniuk - author of Fight Club, dozens of novels, and "Consider This" a book about writing

    Judy Blume

    Tim O'Brien - author of "The Things they Carried"

    Andy Weir - author of "The Martian"

    Brad Thor - author of dozens of thriller novels

    Robert Greene - author of "Mastery"

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