E70: Choosing A Book Topic And Planning It Out With Sarah Barbour
Episode description
Sarah Barbour is a book coach and editor for Entrepreneurs with stories to tell. She helps authors get focused on their goals and audience, establish a realistic timeline for their book, keep them accountable to their writing targets, and walk them through the self-publishing process.
Quotes To Remember:
“A book is a really nice opportunity to get to know someone on a slightly deeper level.”
“Pretty much everyone hits a wall at some stage.”
“There’s always a stage where you think: I just can’t do this”
“Get it all out….then you can start the process of organizing it.”
“Once you hear that information, rather than seeing it, you get a different perspective from it.”
“What if I write this book and no-one reads it?”
What You’ll Learn:
- How to get started writing successfully
- How to choose a good solid book topic
- Why it’s good to hire beta readers and editors
- Why it’s a good idea to allow time between finishing a book and publishing it
- How to approach and deal with writer’s block
- Why continuously writing helps you to find the content you like
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Recommended Books:
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Real Artists Don’t Starve by Jeff Goins
From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler