“I want to write a book, but I’m not a writer.”
We hear this more often than you might imagine.
Here’s the good news: you don’t have to consider yourself a professional writer to have something worth publishing.
Authors begin with ideas.
Maybe you’ve lived through an experience that changed you. Maybe you’ve built a career and learned lessons that could help someone else. Perhaps you have a message about leadership, faith, motherhood, business, healing, ambition or personal growth.
That’s where your book begins.
Writing is simply the process of giving structure to that message.
Start with the stories you tell naturally. Think about the questions people constantly ask you. Write down the lessons you wish you had known ten years ago.
Those ideas can become chapters.
Those chapters can become a manuscript.
And that manuscript can eventually become a book someone holds in their hands.
Publishing is no longer reserved for celebrities or established writers with major publishing contracts. Today’s authors have more opportunities than ever to independently publish and build an audience around their ideas.
You don’t need to begin by calling yourself a writer.
Begin by recognizing that you have something worth saying.
