 and stevie farted stevie fucking farted stop sneezing on me acting really weird man acting really weird acting too weird man what's up guys and welcome to this video where we're gonna be talking about how to what the hell stevie know how to write a book outline for your nonfiction book now this video is primarily geared towards people who are creating a book outline for a ghost writer because that's personally how we publish we don't have time to just sit and write books all day so we hire ghost writers to write our books for us so it will be geared towards that writing a book outline for your ghost writer but it's obviously also gonna be able to apply to if you're writing a book outline for yourself because it's important just to create that foundation that structure that direction for your book before you begin writing it now the reason why your book outline is so important because like we said a million times before the number one most important part is the quality of your book and the only way you're gonna have a book that is as good as you want it to be that contains all of the information that you want is if you provide that to the writer now it also comes back to the key sort of psychology behind every writer which is no one will care about the success of your book as much as you do because they have nothing to gain or to lose from it if it is a high quality book and it does well right yet you have everything to gain so you're gonna give it your all so why would you put it into the hands of someone else who doesn't give a shit about it that's why your book outline is so important you don't want to leave the success of your book in someone else's hands who doesn't give much more than two shits about your book ok so you want to be in full control of the creation of your book which is why you really do want to pay for more than just an entry level writer you want to pay your writer more money so that they are more invested in your book the more invested they are the better your book will end up being so paying an extra few hundred dollars and having your book written will be worth it in the long run but we've talked about that many times before and we'll continue to talk about that in other videos this video is about your book outline now your book outline serves a few purposes the main thing you want to do with your outline is create such an extensive and in-depth outline where you do all the research so that your writer can focus on the quality of their writing so you don't want to have the writer be doing all the research and all the writing they're suddenly doing twice as many things and their writing is obviously going to suffer you want to do all the research for them and provide them with everything you want to create such an in-depth outline of everything you want because you've done all the research you've figured out what customers want in your book you want to do all that so that the writer can just write the content yes this is a lot of work for you there are no shortcuts if you want the best book you have to put in the work now let's get into the structure of a book outline which is the same as the structure of the entire book your book outline is really a condensed version of the full book now basically every single non-fiction book in the world consists of an introduction body chapters a conclusion and a resources page because you really should include that but that's the three main points introduction, body paragraphs and conclusions it's really that simple but it also applies to papers and essays applies to books now your introduction is by far the most important chapter of your entire book and therefore also your book outline it's not to say that obviously the body chapters are not important those are insanely important but we do believe that the introduction is the most important part of your book and the big reason it comes back to something known as the confirmation bias now I'm going to read the definition of what confirmation bias is according to google just so we don't butcher anything here confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor and recall information in a way that confirms one's pre-existing beliefs so basically confirmation bias is where you're basically looking for things that align with your beliefs so in the introduction of your book you want to use the confirmation bias to your advantage so you want to instill certain beliefs in the reader right in the beginning of your book now this applies to like your book cover whether your book description as well so that when they purchase your book they're expecting a high quality book the beliefs that you want to instill is basically that this book is everything they're looking for this book will solve their problems this book will deliver on everything that's been promised this book is basically just going to be an amazing book and an amazing reading experience so this book will just be great so if they read an introduction that makes them feel this way suddenly going forward they're expecting that in the rest of the book anything that they find in the book they will interpret that way they will interpret as damn this is a good book everything they find but if the opposite happens if the introduction is just trash they're going into the rest of the book with the mindset that the rest of the book is going to be trash and then they will see trash everywhere in the book you could have the exact same book and only have the introduction be different a very good one or a very bad one and then they could interpret the entire information throughout the book completely differently and like worthy or bad useless and shitty the exact same information also with the introduction of your book it's going to be the first thing the reader reads it might be the only thing if it's shit they're like I'm not going to waste my time reading this book I'm going to go leave a bad review maybe what this comes down to in the end is getting a 5 star review versus 1 star review and then also them telling their friends about the book whatever that's what it comes down to in the end that's the purpose now after the introduction of your book come the body chapters of your book so your book should have around 8 to 12 body chapters that's just a rough number it could have 5 it could have 20 in the end that's really not all that important before a 30,000 word book which is a good standard to go by 8 to 12 is a great number for body chapters every body chapter could be in the range of 2,000 to 4,000 words really the point of the body chapters is to deliver the information deliver on everything that was promised by the book everything you promised in the introduction in your book description in your title in your cover this is the value this is the information this is what they're actually looking for now every body chapter in your book needs a clear topic and a clear message there should be no chapter in your book that's just like bluff or filler like there should be no filler in your entire book like that's what a shitty book is it's a book of just filler that doesn't actually deliver on what was promised and solve the year's problem now I promise you that your ghostwriter will fill your book up with fluff and bullshit if you don't give them an outline telling exactly what to write so to avoid your book being filled with just filler nonsense by a ghostwriter you need to do the research for them and tell them exactly what every chapter is going to be about and then the key points and messages you want to deliver in every chapter now how do you find out what every chapter should be about you need to do research you need to do customer research to figure out what your readers will want to learn in your book and how do you do this customer research so there's two really good methods or resources for you to use one look at the table of contents of other super successful books in your niche so you want to look at these table of contents that's basically their book outline so you want to use that as inspiration for what a potential book outline could look like for your book and then the next thing you want to do is look at the reviews on these books I think that Amazon Reviews is one of the best resources that you have to look at to figure out what's working for other books what isn't and what people want in a book the most useful reviews to look at are actually 3 star reviews so not 5 star reviews because often with 5 star reviews it'll be like fanboys saying I love this book or fake reviews or fake reviews or fake reviews as well a lot of those all they say is this is amazing yeah they won't give any like actual good feedback for you saying exactly what part they like that it might be legit but you need something to work with and then 1 star reviews are often just douche bags that had a bad day like uh fuck you this book is trash it wasn't perfect so 1 star you can't use that for anything there's also not feedback there it's just this is trash don't ever buy this the 3 star reviews that's where the money is in the 3 star reviews the 3 star reviews are the most helpful and useful thing I've ever read every single one they're saying oh I like this about the book I do not like this you should improve this this was good like they're basically telling everything that they would like to have had in the book just take that and use it in your own book 3 star reviews are the best thing you could use for this 4 star without a doubt so those are the two things you want to look at to figure out what should make up the body chapters of your book then after the body chapters comes the conclusion all you want to do is sum up the book and basically let the reader know that you've delivered on everything they're looking for and then also ask for a review basically don't fuck up the conclusion because most people will read the book and leave the review after so if you leave it on a bad note they might not give it the 5 star that deserve or just make it good enough obviously every part of your book is super important and then at the end you want to just add a resources page so that it basically just adds credibility to your book so that you can see like everything stated in here it's not bullshit it's not nonsense it's not something to pull it out of my ass I've done these like website articles and scholarly papers or whatever yes it's just important to have at the end of your book but the final thing I think we should do is look at the template that we use ourselves for our book outlines that we write for our ghost writers guys we're making this as easy for you as it possibly can get right we're doing as much work as we can now there's obviously more things to discuss about like what goes into your book I don't want this to be like a 60 minute YouTube video so we talk more about that in another video or you can learn about it in our course you can check out the free training for that down below but in the course we provide this template that we're about to look at it's a 10 page template that basically just it's a plug and play you fill in everything it's hard to explain let's just look at it instead of trying to explain alright here we are at the computer now and we're about to look at the template that we use ourselves to write our book outlines and this is the same template that we provide to all our AIA members for them to go through where we also in depth show you how to fill it out and how to use it for your own publishing business but for the sake of this video we're just going to go through it briefly so start here with a little message for your writer we just let them know basically our expectations and that we're looking for something super high quality so basically if you can't deliver on this get the fuck out spacey like we're basically setting a standard like this is what we expect it's a little intimidating so if they're not up for it then yeah we'll find a different writer then we quickly explain about what we want then there's the 5 key elements that this book needs to focus on to be the best that it can we can make another video talking about this info focus organization flow language blah blah blah and then a few things that we do not accept in our books then really the premise is quality is everything and then next we move on to the book overview simply gonna be delivering the information that they need title, subtitle, author name, the word count target audience this really helps knowing who you're writing for then information like problem that led the customer to purchase this book this gives your writer a very good idea about how to deliver deliver the message solution to that problem a brief summary this is all what you're providing to your writer okay so this is all created with your own research then the top 5 competitive titles then next we get into the chapter by chapter outline the introduction that we talked about that is so important we've broken the introduction down to an 8 step process that really gets everything done that you want with your introduction now how do you do each of these steps this video would be you join AIA and you learn how in there and then we get into the body chapters and then basically like we said before the body chapters point is to deliver on everything that was promised in the introduction so this is where all your research goes so you figure out what chapter 1 is about and then what we did not mention is with like your chapter title you want to create a very compelling title for your chapter you don't just want to call it for example chapter 1 the basics to keto diet you would want to turn it compelling to something like the basics of keto diet that everyone needs to know before they can get started like it's the exact same thing but it just makes you want to read it so you provide bullet points also known as key points that are all going to relate to the message of the chapter provide some notes for your writer and then the resources aka links which are very very very important this is where you found all the information that you want in your book giving it to your writer so again like they don't have to do any research you're giving it to them so like this is the information I want in the book because like keto can be for example keto can be approached from a few different angles you're telling them I want you to spread this message in this chapter from this article and that's also why the resources section of your book is very important because it is coming from the internet and then the same just repeats for all your body chapters title, key points, notes, resources down and then finally a conclusion which is basically copy paste so that the writer knows how to just how you want your book to end to be summarized, wrapped up, yes and then finally the resources page you just want that created in APA format and then the last thing that we like to add is a section explaining the most common reasons for bad reviews of books in our niche and that basically runs through the ten page well nine page outline template that we use for our books that we deliver to our ghost writers so that they know exactly what the fuck we want our books to be about Jesus Christ you talk a lot huh so there you have the perfect outline template that we created that's what I'm saying you just want to talk we're reserved for APA members magic emoji of the day is hopefully that doesn't sound bad when I pick it up but the microphone it might sound like shit when I'm going like this don't do that what's the point but as a whole like audio level 100 when you use the blue yeti mic link down below to get yours I'm joking but actually like that's a helpful link like if you ever want to record some shit like your own audiobooks you can do that with this mic comment like subscribe now I know after watching this video you're thinking holy shit wow this is a crazy ass video I can't believe you did all that work for us you're welcome see you guys in the next video check out our other videos on our channel hey 2.0 fake the black