18 Feb 2008 04:11:18 | Jim Green
There is an age-old adage that is as true today as when it was
first mooted.
"Everyone has at least one good book in them"
The problem is that most people never get around to writing it
because they hamper progress by cluttering their thoughts with
mental blocks.
Little do they appreciate that there already is a bestseller
lying dormant in the mind - nor do they know how to access it.
Could you extract the book lurking in your mind?
Could you produce a niche carving bestseller in your spare time
and then proceed to do it over again, time after time?
With professional guidance you could.
I never suspected I would but I have managed to produce several
over the years on a part time basis, and so too could you if you
set about matters with conviction.
SO YOU'VE NEVER EVER WRITTEN ANYTHING CREATIVE?
You have, you know, and you've been doing it all of your life.
When you were sitting exams at school, you were engaging in the
creative writing process, addressing questions and providing
answers with well reasoned argument.
When you sit down to compose a letter, produce a thesis or
develop a business proposal, you are in the creative mode.
All of these exercises have something common: they are works of
non-fiction, and so it follows that the creation of a
full-length book in that genre is any and all of these
activities writ large.
You are adept at creative writing but so far you have only
skimmed the surface of your latent ability.
SO YOU'VE TRIED AND TRIED AGAIN WITHOUT SUCCESS?
Perhaps on the other hand you have been activating your innate
skills for years and all you have to show for it is a
never-ending stream of rejection slips.
Perhaps too you have been focusing your energies on fiction, the
most notoriously difficult of genres to break into as a writer
aspiring to achieve the recognition that leads to publication.
Could it be you have now decided that the only way you'll ever
see your work in print is to become a self-publisher?
You wouldn't be the first. These famous masters of fiction were
all obliged to take the route of shelling out hard cash to have
their debut novels printed.
Alexandre Dumas, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce,
John Grisham, Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy, Rudyard Kipling,
Stephen Crane, Upton Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman,
William Blake, Zane Grey
John Grisham, incidentally, sold copies of his first novel A
Time to Kill out of the boot of a car which at the outset was
his sole 'vehicle' for distribution…
But we are concerned here with another genre, a genre that
permits self-expression under predetermined guidelines designed
to give you a better than evens chance of publication without
the necessity of paying for the privilege, providing always that
your work and its presentation are painstakingly and
professionally executed.
DETERMINE YOUR PROPENSITY FOR CREATING NICHE NON-FICTION
Ask yourself these questions and spend a few minutes in quiet
reflection before you provide the answers.
1. Do you like to read, be it fiction or non fiction? 2. Do you
enjoy writing letters, reports, or whatever? 3. Do you have a
better than average vocabulary? 4. Do you strive at every
opportunity to enhance your personal word power? 5. Do you
persist with crosswords until you've solved all the clues? 6. Do
you have an enquiring mind? Do you have special interests? 7. Do
you have expertise in any particular subject(s)? 8. Would you
undertake research to confirm and expand on what you think you
know? 9. Would you be prepared to share this knowledge with
others? 10. Would you be willing to make time to write about it
for pleasure and profit? 11. Are you comfortable about
committing your private thoughts to paper? 12. Are you
self-disciplined? 13. Are you relaxed about working on your own?
If you can genuinely answer 'yes' to all of these questions, you
already have the nucleus of a powerful propensity for creating
niche non fiction in the shape of self-help and how-to guides.
If on the other hand you answered 'yes' to most and 'no' to a
few, then work on those negative areas.
If you answered 'no' to Question 8, then think again and dig
deeply this time. Most people have expert knowledge on something
or other. It could be a job, a hobby, or any of a thousand
disparate topics.
And should you consider that what you know would be of little
value to anyone else, you would be wrong.
Many people share a passion for your particular area of interest
and are anxious to become even better informed.
The ‘Secrets To Churning Out Bestsellers’ creative writing
course will show you how to access the bestseller lying dormant
in your mind and how to plan ahead for pre-determined success as
a niche non-fiction writer.
About Author :
Jim Green is a bestselling author with an ever-growing string of
niche non-fiction titles to his credit. ‘Secrets to Churning Out
Bestsellers’ is his latest dynamic creative writing course and
is available for immediate download at
http://www.1st-creative-writing-course.com