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eBook Writing Tutorial - Step 3
By Skip Pratt
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2002 - 2003
In the first of our series, I asked you to get a notebook and write during the week. The three things you are writing about are:
1. What I LOVE to do
2. Jobs and positions that I have held
3. Skills that I have
In the previous exercises you have written down a lot of information.
Perhaps you are just reading these pages and doing nothing but lurking and THINKING about these exercises. That would be too bad, unless of course you are just THINKING of writing an ebook.
These exercises are designed to help you get information out of your head, onto paper and into action. So let’s get busy.
For this week’s exercise, its time for us to take from each of our three lists:
1. What I LOVE to do
2. Jobs and positions that I have held
3. Skills that I have
the top three items from each list. So get out your spiral notebook and open it to a brand new page.
Write down the three categories from above on three separate pieces of paper. Then go ahead and take your top three items from the exercise in the second series. Place them evenly from top to bottom of the paper (this will create a lot of space in between each of the three.
Let’s look at an example:
1. What I LOVE to do
a. Solve business problems with technology
b. Downhill skiing
c. Mentoring
At the top of my page, would be “What I LOVE to do”. Right below that will be “Solve business problems with technology”. About a third down the page will be Downhill skiing and down another third of the page will be Mentoring.
Each item that I LOVE to do will have about a third of the blank page available to write some more.
Spend some time answering the “why” question, writing your answers under each of the items that you LOVE to do,
In my example of “solve business problems with technology”, I might write the following answers as to why I love to solve business problems:
Allows me to express my creativity
Makes money
Cuts costs
Makes peoples lives easier
Improves efficiencies
Exercises my troubleshooting and diagnostic skills
And so forth.
Next, go ahead and do that for all three of your categories. Like in previous exercises, don’t spend a lot of time thinking about these; just WRITE.
As the days go by, until the next lesson, come back to your lists and begin thinking deeper about the “Why”. Write down any new answers. I’ve found in doing this portion of the work, there is often many things I love that don’t immediately come to mind. Pondering can often crack open the truth.
That’s it for this week’s exercise. Send me an email to
and let me know how it is going!
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