5Top Book Writing Ideas Outlines and Plans

While Mr. Gutenberg was finishing up the first development of the printing press as we know it. The first entire book printed was the Bible. The second book printed was the Adventures of Marco Pollo. Did you know Columbus accidentally discovered the Americas while looking for the adventures he read about in the second book ever printed, written by Marco Pollo. He got so excited he requested funds from the Queen to go see this land and bring back samples..the rest is history. This little story inspired our BIG brand 'Books Inspire Greatness. Now for those Top five book writing plans

1. Use the “ten chapters with ten points” plan.
With this plan, you take the topical information that you have
gathered for the book.
1. Divide this information into ten sub-topics.
2. Use your existing information first;
3. Do research to fill in any holes.
4. Create an outline from your list of topics.
5. Write your table of contents from your outline.
6. Take each sub-topic, write a chapter
introduction, create ten points and a
summary.

7. Write your front and back matter including the book’s
introduction.
With the Ten Chapter – Ten Point plan, you will have at least
100 points to angle and use to sell your book.
Example Book Concepts: Photoshop CS5: Top 100

Example Books: Simplified Tips and Tricks (Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks)
by Lynette Kent (Jun 28, 2010); 100 Tips For Blues Guitar
You Should Have Been Told (Book & CD) by David Mead (Jan
1, 2006); Playing Basketball: An Arm Chair Guide Full of 100
Tips to Getting Better at Basketball by Arm Chair Guides
(Jun 23, 2011)

2. Supply a q/a session.
This plan is simple for the one who has tons of experience,
credentials or degrees. You already eat, drink and live your
topic.
1) Simply, create a list of questions most frequently
asked in your field.
2) List at least ten.
3) Answer each one in great detail.
4) Include your stories, examples and illustrations to
amplify your solutions.
5) Write your front and back matter including the book’s introduction and recommended resources.
6) Consider using the experts' work
you interviewed in your recommended
resources list. It will be an added
attraction for your experts.
Make sure they are the questions your readers want to
know and not just what you think they want to know. One
way to find out is to ask them.
For example, you could conduct a survey of a group from
your audience and use the top twenty-one questions. A
variation of this plan would be to interview the top gurus
in your field. Put your introduction, summary and the
interviews inside your book.

Example Book Concepts: Cracking the Coding
Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions by
Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Aug 22, 2011); 10
Technology Jingles or Jinxes: What Your New Technology
May Be Doing To You & How To Avoid It

3. Compile top mistakes or secrets.
Everyone hates making mistakes. In this plan, you compile
the top mistakes in your industry with the solutions.
• List at least ten to twenty-one mistakes you see
being made in the day-to-day grind of your field.
• Write in detail the solution or the way to avoid making
each mistake.
• Put at least a couple of mistakes you made inside your
book.
• Write your front and back matter including the book’s
introduction.

Most people want to hear about you being the bug on the
windshield, at least sometimes. They may tune you out,
if you are the windshield all the time. A variation to this
plan would be to expose the top secrets in your field inside
your book.

Example Book Concepts: The Top Ten Mistakes
Leaders Make by Hans Finzel (Oct 1, 2007); The Top
Ten Mistakes Salespeople Make & How to Avoid Them by
Todd Duncan

4. Turn your talking points to teaching points.
If you are a stronger speaker than writer but still want a
book. You can do this; turn your speech talking points into
teaching points in your book. Perhaps, you conduct a
popular workshop.
• Record your latest and best speech or workshop.
• Hire a transcriptionist to transcribe your audio.
• Take your transcribed audio or audios and form
into a book. It might not be a good read, if you
take the transcription straight to print.
• Create a book outline.
• Write an introduction and summary for each chapter.
• Then insert the meaty parts from your audio in
each chapter to form your book. You can use your
lists, stories, examples and illustrations.
• Consider hiring a ghostwriter to turn your
transcribed speech or workshop into a book, if all
this sounds like too much.
• Write your front and back matter including the book’s
introduction.

Example Book Concepts: The Idiot's Guide To Websites;
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive
Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia (Jan 15, 2007);
The Best Kept Secrets of Investors

5. Use your existing: experience, education and
expertise.
• Gather all related information from your files,
speeches, workshops, degrees, certifications
and more.
• List and categorize each related body.
• Decide the core idea to write your book on.
The best idea to develop a book on is usually
the same one you have the most existing
information for.
• Write your one to two sentence theses.
• Develop a working title from this core idea.
• Create a mind map outline using everything
you gathered from your existing body of
information. Your core idea keywords or
working book title would be in the middle.
Your sub-topic keywords would be the
branches extending from the middle circle.
After you are satisfied with the parts of your
mind map, write your book. Write in detail
from each branch.
• Or don't forget the simplest way for some
people is to use a power outline. With the
Power Outline (We provide a template in this
writing program.), you simply list the
introduction including thesis, great beginning &
background information.
• Then you list the supporting points four to ten
followed by the conclusion.
• Write your front and back matter including the
book’s introduction.
Remember to rephrase your book's thesis, summarize main
points and tie back to introduction.

Example Book Concepts: How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little
Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes (Sep
19, 2003); The Complete Handbook of the Restaurateur

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