I'm just going to include bullet lists to make reading easier.
Ideas about the writing process:
- mind map your ideas, group them together, outline the content and expand your ideas, write
- write in a conversational tone
- have a structure of the book
- write what you're most excited about first, because that's where the energy is
- set time aside to write every day and don't do anything else = discipline of daily writing
- have a daily target of the number of words
- the three bucket system: ideas jotted down somewhere (iPhone, Evernote…) turn into drafts saved in a folder, which turn into edits and finished products that are published somewhere (if you fill each bucket, you'll never run out of something to write about, draft or edit)
- one-hour interviews of influential people in whatever area you want to write about, have them transcribed and use the information from each interview for a chapter; add some quotes to make the chapters more interesting
- control the urge to constantly edit when writing, because you can lose good and interesting ideas
- always name your sources: give credit where it's due
- be very specific and clear about what you're going to write about
- know who you, the writer, are and be consistent with your voice
- focus on what you want the reader to do or where you want the reader to go
- focus on how you want the reader to be different at the end of the book
- writing is much more about the thinking than the writing itself; so during the thinking process take notes of everything and do all the necessary research
- the writing process is intimately linked to the way you organize information: take big chunks of information and organize them into modules with a sequence
- start with a story to lay the foundation of the topic, then say what the result was and finally go through the different steps of the process
- mind map > outline > write; final step: edit
- mind map > outline > speak (= record); final steps: transcribe & edit.