How To Become An Author And Make Money

One of the biggest obstacles to being an author is completing or even getting started on your book.

Don’t let this happen to you!

This is too important. If you have the ability to turn $5 into $500 do you sit on it and say “I’ll do it tomorrow.” Or do you run to the bank and get as many 5 dollar bills as you can? Hopefully you run to the bank! I’m telling you to run to the bank with your book!

You have two choices on how to get to the bank. Your first option is to write the book yourself.

Your other option is to hire a ghostwriter. There are of course advantages and disadvantages to hiring a ghostwriter.

I’m going to assume that you’re going to write the book yourself. Here’s what you need to know:

Write each and every day!

To optimize your time, find a time of day that you are likely to be most productive and motivated. If you are a morning person, do not set aside 20 minutes after the 11:00 news and before you go to bed as your designated writing time. It will not happen. Likewise, if you are a night owl, do not tell yourself that you will get up half an hour early every day to write. I have been there and it does not work.

When you are first getting started on your book, it is important to find your most productive time of day. Find the time of day that you are at your creative best. If you are an early morning person, then deciding to work on your book after Lost and before you go to bed is not the best idea. It will not happen. Maybe the quiet hours before everyone wakes will be your best time. Conversely, if you are a night owl, then hoping to get up an hour earlier every day will not work and maybe writing while the late show is on will be your best time.

In addition to finding the best time for you to write, you will need to consider the best or most optimal location for you to write. It might be your kitchen table, or the local coffee shop, or a home office. I have known writers to sequester themselves in their car during lunch to get an hour’s worth of writing time.

Your plan might also include how long you are able to write. You will not only want to consider how long your attention span can focus on your story, but writers also have a tendency to get deeply involved in their projects and neglect their other responsibilities. So keep in mind how long you can reasonably spend on your book each day without neglecting your loved ones!

Other factors that you might want to consider are the materials that you are going to need. Will you write in a notebook or directly onto your computer? Consider also, using a voice recorder to record your thoughts and have someone transcribe them.

Choose A Money Making, Career Building, Best Selling Book Topic.

There are really only a handful of reasons that people buy non-fiction books. If you can work your subject to offer one of these six benefits – you are golden.

To make money. (If you go to the bookstore, I bet you can find more than 100 books with the word Millionaire in them! In fact, just think about how popular the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” books are.)

To save energy or effort. (Quick and Easy Ways to…fill in the blank. Lose weight, Get Married, Get Divorced…)

To save time. (Sell Your Home in 10 days, 30 Minute Meals…)

To be healthier. (10 Ways to Eat Organically, How to Eliminate Fatigue, How to Manage Stress…)

To be popular, prettier, sexier, smarter, or better at something. (How to Meet Women, How to Be Successful, 10 Days to Better Skin, 10 Days to a Better Sex Life, etc…)

Spiritual guidance. (Just look at the recent success of The Secret and its many spin offs!)

So there you have it, the two things you need to become an author and make money are to write every day and to choose a book topic that is in demand – a book that will help others and a book that will make you a fortune.