Discover the Secrets of Ebook Creation
Without any shadow of doubt, if you ask any writer what is the hardest part of what they do, they are likely to tell you that writing the first sentence is the most difficult bit.
Before you start, when you are looking at the whole project, it’s like sitting at the bottom of a very tall mountain. But, the fact is that the mountain is there to be climbed and, no matter how tough it is, it CAN be climbed, step by step.
Writing an eBook is no different. A daunting, perhaps even scary task before you set out on your journey, but one that will get progressively easier as you become more and more skilled at dealing with the task in hand. Like the mountain, it’s a step by step process, sometimes laborious, sometimes inspiring, until one day you arrive and the “summit” and write your last word!
The first thing that you need to do before you attempt to write one single word is to get organized.
Start out by coming up with a few potential ideas for the title of your book. Simply write down everything that comes into your head an eventually, you’ll find what you are looking for.
One thing that helps me with titles is to try and think of them when I am NOT at my computer. If you try to think of titles when driving your car, taking the train or digging the garden, the different perspective of your surroundings will often generate title ideas that are really original!
Aim for a title that tells your potential reader what the book is about, whilst also being intriguing enough to make him or her want to know more. For example, use words like “secrets” or “hidden”, to imply that there is more than the title is telling