 I zoom here. So sometimes you just need a little extra something something. This is Debbie Debbie dashing or Deborah dashing or and I'm doing this live because I Wanted to talk about bookwriting and I want it to be simple I it's amazing how many people have come forward to me and have expressed to me how much they want to write a book and And how it really hasn't quite happened yet. So I want to tell you the great news is You can absolutely write a book and you can you can publish it. You can do it in under a year. You can do it with great ease and great success. So there's a lot of reasons why a lot of authors fail. First of all, I'm just going to tell you what I'm going to tell you. I'm going to give you some tips in this and I'm going to tell you a way to move forward. If it's of help to you and if I can help you. I'm here. Please ask questions. I can also answer questions. Happy to And so I'm a bookwriting coach. I I run a visibility hub. What I do out in the world specifically Is I coach people how to write a page turn a book. I think it's really important if you're going to put a book out into the world, it'll be good Because your book should be standing out amongst all the many good billions of books that are going out there right now. Lots of people want to be authors also tell you that 85% of people who say they're going to write a book never do. So you should be of that 50% 15 who actually follow through and complete and then I also part as part of the visibility hub. I run a company that takes authors books to a guaranteed international bestseller. It's fully done for you and I teach the ultimate visibility formula how you can get booked To be interviewed on radio and podcasts and get enough results. So Back to why you fail at writing a book. Yes. Numero uno tip is you don't ever write it to if you have no idea where to start, you don't get the help Whether it's online help or coaching help or some kind of group that's really supporting you with accountability. That's really important. If you don't know what you don't know, then you don't know right and a lot of people actually start the process and they get just so far and then they say I'm going to crap out on myself, even though that's like unthinkable because this will be a regret. I'll always have So you don't want to do that. You want to find a way that you're going to follow through to the end and I would say it's really another reason why people fails. They don't understand the whole system. They don't understand that writing a book isn't merely writing a book writing a book is the after part of the book right if 5% of any book is actually the writing of it 95% it was what happens after in the marketing and All the yummy pieces that go into it the endorsements the book cover what you're going to have on the back of the book. Where do you want the book. And then just having some really general questions in the beginning is another reason why a lot of authors or want to be authors fail. They don't know the right questions to ask. So let's go over some of that so that you can feel some ease. And again, you have any questions. If you want some help to write a book. Tada. I would love to help you. I really would. I'd love to answer any questions you have. And if any of my students are out there watching that if you'll post here. I'd love you to because I'm so proud of and take a quick drink of water. I run the visible visionaries ongoing book writing membership where we get together live twice a month on zoom people are everywhere in the world. And it's a beautiful thing. People are in different places and I'm really proud of my students. If you're watching students because At least half of them right now, a close to finishing your book close to getting to the editing process. And so that's really what this is all about. It's about taking on a project showing up and being accountable and Following through right finishing what you say. So the first thing the first step in in like your book to ask yourself is a one sentence a summary. What is that one sentence of your book your novel graphic novel children's book fiction nonfiction comedy coffee table. What is the sentence describing your book. This is a lot like describing your business right you always want to find the one sentence that describes your business. A lot of times we talk about we message. What is your message messages in a paragraph right it's something you tell someone that's one sentence. And we immediately understand who you are what you do why you what you provide the benefits and probably the pain or the problem situations that you resolve. So this book sentence can be the same. The next thing is describe the story again very short very brief. But what is the story you want to write or subject is your that you want to talk about The third is if you're going to have characters, whether they're through a memoir and they're real Or they're going to be fictionalize whatever it is delineate who the characters are who's your main character who are the sub characters. You might want to have a bit of an organizational plot a bit like a family tree and how people relate to one another. So you can keep everything really clear in your mind when you're writing your story. And then fourth you want to expand a little bit. If you were to have chapter titles what like headlines, what would they be what would your chapter titles be and then what's beautiful about writing those In advance is that then when you go to actually sit down and write you will have exactly what you're writing about in every chapter. Don't worry, things are fluid, you can always change if you need to and add something that it's a beautiful roadmap for you and writing your book. And then fifth back to the characters, you want to write really quirky fleshed out beautiful interesting sad characters. You know, like humans were complicated creatures, we want to get to know complicated creatures where we get invested, whether it's a memoir or if it's a novel That we get really involved with the personalities people were rooting for them, no matter how bad or good they are. And know that your main character is always going to have an arc they're going to go through a bit of a Joseph Campbell hero or heroines journey it's not going to be easy for them until they get to the end. So remember when you write you are writing something that's going to suit your audience, but also remember it's the book you want to write it's the book you want to read right that book. So okay you just learned some steps about how to summarize how to index how to look at your characters and how to show up to write your book i'm going to talk about that in a subsequent video so I hope you'll continue to join me. And i'm really happy to educate you about this process, I love giving out tips and I want to share with you don't die with the book inside of you really don't I found you know, in the beginning of coven my business was like the desert for a couple of days. I really was wondering, maybe like many of you, how am I going to come out of this, because I had so many people pull out private book writing clients and a lot of my groups, you know seem to waiver. And then something switched like a couple of months into this pandemic, all of a sudden I think people started reflecting and saying hey. i'm not dying with a book inside of me and I have a lot of time and it's a great time for me to sit down and. write something like this and get visible and finish this beautiful project i've dreamt about but didn't know how and that's when all of a sudden. classes started getting filled in private coaching clients came back and that made me so happy to know like books they're back. The Renaissance, the book and writing so you're you may be one of those people who now are at the tail end and are wondering. Okay, now I am finding I haven't created this bucket list item of writing the book so write the damn book Okay, if I can help you i'm so happy to help you. i'm going to post a link here for you, and if you would like to join our ongoing live zooms it's twice a month that we meet. The people in the group are total amazing love bug professionals super supportive of one another and really, really doing well, we get to read our work out loud. and get feedback, and we also find out the first time we meet of every month, we get this big download about book writing and their tips. And you see people changing changing and sometimes we do book writing exercises and just join us you're going to see how awesome it is. And again go to debon the radio.clickfunnels.com slash visible dash visionaries that's where we are, I am so happy. To help you in any way I can, and if you have any questions for a future video, please ask because i'm happy to help you there as well anyway. write the damn book don't don't go another day or month or week without the book being complete one of these books, even though that looks really old. could be yours in the future with your name sitting on a bookshelf being sold somewhere having your friends and your family read it putting your legacy out into the world it's worth it i've done it four times and I. Also do a lot of anthologies and so you know if you ever wonder just say what would Buddha do what would Buddha do. And then answer that question, because we know what Buddha would do he put his wisdom out there and his mirth and we create something beautiful and he would stand by it so go big like Buddha.