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What Kind of Book Would You Like to Write?
During the summer, I spent a lot of time talking to people about my fiction and nonfiction books. Almost every week, someone told me that they were thinking about writing a book. These people are not alone. Eighty-five percent of people say they want to write a book, but less than one percent do it. that’s why I’m writing today.
If you want to be one of the one percent who write and publish a book, I will help you overcome the obstacles that most people who want to write a book face.
This is the first in a series of articles I am writing to help you create your nonfiction book. One of the first things you need to decide is your general topic and the writing style that best suits your goals. Here are a few types of nonfiction books that you can write.
How To
When I started writing many years ago, I began writing in eHow. On eHow, I wrote about many different topics, but as the site’s name suggests, each article I wrote had to be a “how to” article. I wrote over one hundred of them before the company was bought out and they paid me a lump sum for my articles.
A how-to book can be written about an innumerable number of subjects and is only limited by what you know about any specific topic. Manuals also fall into this category.