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eBook Writing Tutorial - Step 2
By Skip Pratt
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2002
In the first of our series, I asked you to get a notebook and write during the week. The three things I am writing about are:
1. What I LOVE to do
2. Jobs and positions that I have held
3. Skills that I have
I asked you to write about these three topics on three separate sheets of paper.
This week, I want to take some time and organize those three sets of paper.
First, take your sheets of paper one at a time. It is best to do this exercise for each of the three topics at different times, one for each of the three.
What we are going to do is a ranking or prioritization exercise.
Now spend just a few minutes looking over your first list, What I LOVE to do. Once you have reviewed it, get your pen or pencil.
You are going to examine your list and write a number next to each item. The number represents your priority of the items. The number one is obviously the top.
So for your What I LOVE to do list, mark the number one next to the item you like doing the most. Then continue through the list until you have a number next to each item.
Do NOT spend a lot of time thinking about your items listed. Go with your gut instincts. You know what you LOVE most.
For the second list, Jobs and positions that I have held, do the same thing. Develop a priority of which jobs and positions you have held that you liked the most. Don’t worry yet about WHY you liked one job over another.
Then for the third list perform the same prioritization exercise by defining your top ranked Skills that I have. In other words for this one, you should put your number one on the skill you feel is your very very best.
Next we need to rewrite our three lists on new sheets of paper in the prioritized order.
Once that is complete, you can begin to study the similarities between lists, if any. Make some mental notes (or written notes if you prefer) of any similarities or consistent themes between them.
That’s it for this phase. Next week we will take our lists and begin to drill down into areas and topics where you have potential for writing your ebook.
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