How to Write a Book in 14 Days

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner and today I'm going to talk to you about how to write a book in fourteen days. Depending on what kind of book you're going to be writing and how long it's going to be this will change but today I'm just going to give you some general advice for if you're writing a big book whether it's fiction or non fiction, how are you going to actually do this. My first piece of advice is to plan your time wisely. Make sure that you write everyday because you only have fourteen days and when you think about that that's really daunting. If you're going to write a book in fourteen days you're probably not going to be able to have an actual job because you're going to be writing pretty much from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep. Next, make a very specific outline for your writing, you can probably do that before you start writing it. Write down what you need to accomplish in your book even go so far as to eliminate all aspects of all the chapters that you're going to be putting into your book and then going into subheadings so that you have all of your work done before you start to jump into it. If it's a book that requires a lot of research you're also going to have to do that before you jump into writing so it's going to be a little more difficult to write a research book in fourteen days. Next, in my opinion if you're going to write a book in fourteen days, number one write everyday, number two try to write the entire book in seven days, and then keep your next seven days for revising your book because if this is just to write the book and have a draft written you can use all of your days to write it. But if this is to write a book and then to turn around and sell that book or submit that book then I would suggest you need as much time as possible to go back and to revise your book, and every aspect of it. So you know, really if you're writing a book in fourteen days from publication, you're really writing it in seven, and revising it in seven. And my final piece of advice is get lots of sleep when you can, good sleep and pray."