Get Ready
The very first thing you have to do before you get started creating your own e-book is:
GET RID OF YOUR STINKIN’ THINKIN
You have stinkin’ thinkin’ whether you know it or not. You MUST have, or you'd already have your own product out there being sold! Somewhere, somehow you’ve gotten it into your head that you can’t write a book, or that you don’t know how to put a book together, or that you don’t have any good ideas for a book.
This book isn’t really about changing your thought patterns, your beliefs about yourself, but I will tell you these two things:
YOU THINK WRITE A BOOK YOU’RE RIGHT
YOU THINK WRITE A BOOK YOU’RE RIGHT TOO!
It’s TRULY up to you! If you think you can’t, you won’t; if you think you can, you will. I know it’s “corny’, but it’s true.
You DO have a book in you … probably a LOT more than that, once you get yourself started. Everybody has a book in their head or can get one planted there!
I really don’t care if you THINK you can’t write a book…I KNOW that you can! You’ve talked yourself into the “fact” that you couldn’t write a book if someone held a gun to your head.
YOU’VE done that…now, let’s undo it!
Have you ever told your husband, wife, mom, dad, best friend… anybody! … a story or an idea and they got it? They understood what you were meaning to say and were affected by what you said…maybe they laughed, maybe they cried, maybe they agreed with you…maybe not! The important thing here is that they understood and reacted to what you told them.
What I’m trying to tell YOU here is that you’re already writing a book, in a sense, every time you get an idea across to someone else.
Realize this: You're already writing book chapters almost every day … right now! Every time you get an idea from your head into someone else’s head, you’ve just finished a sentence…a paragraph…a page!
When you look at it like that, can you write book?
Maybe you’re one of those people who have to have everything perfect BEFORE you even think about publishing a book…are you? Well, the old story about Thomas Edison and his 1139 failures before inventing the light bulb comes to mind…but the best one is the Wright Brothers…good old Orville and Wilbur.
Did you know they put their first airplane all together…let everyone in Dayton, Ohio know that they were going to fly like bird… had a brass band hired and everything.
On the day they had announced, a HUGE crowd gathered … the band played … children ran around … people brought picnic lunches … newspaper reporters were there … a BIG deal! The airplane never moved an inch! Not one inch…as a matter of fact, the wings came off!
Know what? It didn’t move the 2nd time either…or the 3rd time… OR the 4th ! Talk about public failure!
They learned from their failures … especially since they were so public… and the 5th time they made history!
The point here is, what’s the WORST thing that could happen if you wrote a book and it wasn’t absolutely perfect?
It's an eye-opening experience to look at some of the e-books that are selling…right now…on the Internet. All you have to do is find one that, after you read it, you say, “MAN! Even I could do better than that!” But that book’s selling and yours isn’t because you’re waiting to get it perfect! Don’t get it perfect…get it out there!
To sum up this chapter, get rid of your stinkin'thinkin'… start saying to yourself, in your head…unless you want people to think you’ re really crazy…I CAN write a book! I KNOW I can!
Know that your brain is already writing books for you each day.
All you have to do is figure out how to get it down on paper…and that’s what this book is all about!
Get over that perfectionist stuff. It ain’t never gonna be perfect… just like that grammar, but it gets the point across, doesn't it? Get your book as good as you can at the time, get it out there, see what happens and then test and tweak it till it sells. It’s NEVER going to be completely perfect, but it can be profitable! So get ready, we’re movin’ on!