Years ago, when we lived in the Caribbean, we had a blog.
Several times a week, I would post an update about our life in the islands for our friends and family back home.
When hurricane Ivan hit in 2004 and mashed everything, we ended up in Florida… And I went through the blog and pulled out all of the entries and pasted them into a Word Document.
It was almost 500 pages long!
There were several posts about the Redwings (my favorite hockey team) and about poker (a hobby) and other random stuff that didn’t have anything to do with living in the Caribbean…
So I deleted that stuff, and still ended up with 300 pages of great content.
I proofread that, and edited it down again…
And the end result was a great little 200 page book about living in the Caribbean with kids.
I just submitted it to the Amazon Kindle and Apple iBook stores.
The point of this story?
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It turns out that it’s really easy to write a book.
All you need to do is build a blog, and then write blog posts several times a week!
Think about it – Deciding to sit down and write a book is a huge, daunting task… But writing a blog post takes what, 10 minutes?
Do it 5 times a week, and at the end of the year chances are good that you’ll have a 200 page book sitting there, ready to edit and publish.
Erik
P.S. – If you want to read a funny, engaging tale about living in the Caribbean, check out The Iguana Diaries. I appreciate your comments, as well!
Click here to download The Iguana Diaries.
