Posts Tagged ‘ebook’

Ebook Ideas- Some Suggestions For Finding Ideas For Your Ebook

June 28, 2008 - 6:13 pm

Ideas for developing subjects for your ebook.

Successful eBook writing is productive eBook writing. Productivity requires ideas, and ideas are all around you, you just have to know where to look. Once you open you eyes to the possibilities, your will have more ideas than you ever thought possible.

1. Personal Experiences can generate astonishing possibilities for eBooks. Never discount the value of the day to day mundane activities and places that your daily chores take you. Even standing in line at the grocery store can produce ides that may take your next writing project to new heights.

2. Keep your eyes open! Many writers credit people watching for producing many of the ideas that became some of their best work. Pay attention to everything around you and make notes. What may seem like nothing today may become the answer to your writing dilemma tomorrow or next week.

3. READ! Writers are readers. Reading is not only for researching and entertaining, it can jumpstart your own creative juices and spark new ideas that you can develop into your next eBook. Books, magazines, newspapers and even billboards can provide that spark which becomes your next great idea.

4. Talk to people. Talking to people can help you to generate ideas for themes, character and even dialogue. Every day is another opportunity to meet someone new, someone different that you and expand your base of knowledge for writing.

5. Surf the Net! Not only is net surfing more than entertaining, but it is a fantastic way to generate new ideas for your writing. The Internet can take you anywhere you want to go without ever packing a suitcase or leaving your home.

6. Keep a notebook. Maintaining a notebook of your ideas is an excellent way to avoid loosing that gem of an idea for which you have not yet found a home. Some writers have said that they would be lost without their notebooks and write in them everyday without fail.

25 Ways To Fail As A Freelance Writer

June 19, 2008 - 5:41 pm

1. Don’t set yourself a writing routine or stick to it.

2. Always make sure that doing your writing is at the bottom of your list of priorities, and even when you are writing, if something else you have to do that day springs to mind, then go and do that instead.

3. If one of your friends comes round to invite you out for coffee, just go, no matter how busy you are with your writing.

4. Whenever you’re writing, answer the phone every time it rings and answer the door every time someone knocks.

5. Always feel guilty for doing your writing instead of doing what other people want you to do.

6. Don’t read any articles about writing, especially if it’s written by an expert.

7. If anyone ever tells you of a simple and profitable way to make money from your writing, don’t believe them and never try it.

8. Never take a writing course to hone your skills.

9. Don’t visit any writing sites on the internet, and never subscribe to their newsletters.

10. Don’t join any writer’s forums or participate in any online discussions.

11. Don’t get your own website to showcase your writing ability and writing services to the whole world.

12. Do everything you possibly can not to get your name known in the writing world.

13. Keep your work secret. Always put your writing away in a draw when you’ve finished and never show it to anyone &ndash especially editors and publishers.

14. Don’t enter writing competitions.

15. Don’t submit articles to paying websites.

16. Never even think about writing a book.

17. Especially don’t consider writing a profitable e-book.

18. They say you should write at least 5 article proposals or short stories every week. If you do write them, don’t mail them.

19. If a magazine or publisher offers specific guidelines for submissions, don’t follow them.

20. If an editor likes your work and publishes it, never offer to write for them again.

21. If you send in a query to an editor and don’t hear anything for a couple of weeks, start ringing them and don’t stop until they make a decision about whether or not to publish your work.

22. If one publication rejects your work, assume that it’s worthless and unsuitable for every other publication and don’t send it anywhere else.

23. Whenever you receive a rejection letter, take it personally and throw your work in the bin.

24. Never ever consider the possibility that, if your work’s written from a different angle, it could be suitable for another market and sold again.

25. And if all that doesn’t make you fail, you can always just give up writing.