Hi! I’m Dale Beaumont and welcome to Get Published TV. The only dedicated show on the internet to help authors and aspiring authors to write, publish and market their own bestselling book in eight minutes a day or less. Now, in yesterday’s episode we looked at book printing and we looked at the -- answering the important question, the very important question being, how many copies do I print and sometimes its even called the million dollar question, not that its, you know, is in million dollars but it is worth you a lot of money because if you get it wrong, it’s very costly. If you get it right then it means that you can maximize your profits from your book.
Now again, I’m going to kind of talk about profits quite a bit if I can just kind of stay candidly to your right. Now, you know, I kind of like talking about money. I don’t have an issue with it because a lot of authors do. They have a big issue with regards to people making money because they kind of feel like, “Oh! If I’m making money, then I’m not kind of true to my art. I’m not kind of, you know, I’m kind of selling myself out and I’m prostituting my work, blah, blah.” And look, that certain has -- has merits but you know, I just kind of look at it like this that if I’m actually a successful author meaning that I actually sell a lot of books and make a lot of money then that means that I can reinvest that money into doing more of what I love to do and for me its writing and publishing books. So I use the money that I make, the profits to then write and publish another book. But I use it to reinvest my profits to do more books. And then that’s the way for me to reach and help more and more people. So if you’ve got a block with regards to making money with books, a friend of mine called Matt Church, he’s probably somewhere, I don’t know if I’ve got his book here, I think it’s over there in my office. But he says if you’ve got an issue, build a bridge and get over it. So, I know that sounds very blunt and very harsh but I want to kind of clear that up right now because I want to be talking about books in a physical sense and in art sense as well at certain times but also lets not forget why we’re doing this. We also want to make money as well. Something is being written up on the board there. This is going to be -- okay, under 8 minutes, good, okay.
So, if you’ve been following on a lot of our videos that have been more than 8 minutes but we’re trying to kind of do our best to keep it under 8 minutes. We know time is important but a lot of information is shared so I’m going to keep punching through it. I’m already behind now because I went a bit off topic but again I want to kind of share that with you because it’s kind of my truth. So let me just get into the topic for today, ways to write a book. There are two different ways in which to write a book. We probably not going to have time to cover both of them right now but I’ll let you know what they are and I’ll come back and talk about it on our future episode.
The first way is to actually write the entire book yourself. Now when I say that, you maybe thinking, “Duh! Of course, I’m going to write the book myself because if you're a writer that’s what you do.” And that’s cool if that’s what you want to do absolutely. But the other way that you can go is you can actually outsource that writing to somebody else. Now, in the book world, in our industry, we call that a ghost writer. And some people are going, “Grrr.” You know, that’s bad. That’s evil you know. But youmay be surprised to know, I’m not going to put a percentage on it but it’s a large percentage of books that are currently selling in bookshops are actually written by -- not the person with their name on the cover but written by someone, a ghost writer. So whether you like it or not, its part of our industry and you’ve got to kind of again get your head around that because even though someone else is writing the book, it’s still essentially your knowledge and your ideas anyway. It’s just somebody else that has more skills in that area is actually doing the writing process. So they're two different ways that you can go. Either write it yourself or you can actually go through a ghost writer.
So if you actually are going to publish the book yourself, so write the book yourself. We’ll talk about publishing later on because you can either do it yourself as a self-published author or you can go through a major publisher but essentially you still have to create the work. You still got to write the book. So, the first thing that I would recommend, let me talk about that, what I’d recommend you to do is this -- there's again, of course, we’re talking about two different ways that go but if you write it yourself, there's again two different ways in which you can write your book. One of the ways is to set aside a certain amount of time per day and that’s your time to write your book. Now if you're a busy person, maybe you're going to say the mornings, if you're -- maybe a morning person as well, maybe from 7AM till 9AM, that’s when I writer then I go to work, or on business whatever but for the first two hours a day, I write and I write and I write and that’s what I do. Or it could be the end of the day from 7PM just to 9PM or 10PM or whatever you want or if you're not working then pick any time during the middle of the day but basically, you make a set time. Everyday, you do your best to stick to your way as possible and you just make the time to write your book. That’s one way to go. The other way to go is that you’re actually going to take out of your diary a chunk of time. Now, for some people, it could be a week, for other people, it could be a whole month depending on the type of book that you actually want to write and depending on obviously how many books you’ve written before and how competent you are as a writer because for some people they can punch out an entire book and of course the lengths could vary but lets just say, 200 pages in about 7 days. I know of a number of authors that have produced books that quickly. There are some people that are watching this thinking, “No way! That’s impossible. How could they possibly do it in a week?” Well, it is possible. In fact some people have even, I know that I’ve done it in three days, al right, that may freak some people out right now thinking, “No way!” But if you’ve got those ideas there and you're a fast typist and you just work solidly, you can punch a book out very, very quickly. However, if you're more of a fiction writer and you're kind of into the art thing and you want to kind of write something which is like a -- you know, really good quality then it may take you a year. It may take you two years to do. But either, we’re going to finish this video very, very shortly because again, its got to be under 8 minutes. You're going to set aside a time of day where you're going to write consistently until the job is done or you maybe will go away for a period of time, either a week, two weeks, a month, whatever you like. Whatever it’s going to take and you get your book written. I’ve run out of time, there was a lot more things that I wanted to cover when it comes to this whole artistic processing away of writing. There's heaps more of information but you’ve got to come back and watch tomorrow’s episode because my time is up. This is Dale Beaumont from Get Published TV. See you next time.
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