How to Write a Book - Coaching Success - #560
Barbell Logic
Barbell Logic
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🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to write a book: tips and tricks, developing ideas, motivation, pitfalls, and more. Matt talks to Nick Soleyn, coach and Editor-in-Chief at Barbell Logic.
How to Write a Book: Tips & Tricks for the Process
Matt has been writing a book for Forbes with Nick as the editor. This process has worked especially well, as it has allowed Matt to do what he does best: verbally process ideas and tell stories.
Nick has been able to use his strength, of writing and editing to ensure not just correctness of grammar, syntax, and language but clarity of thought.
As a lawyer, he is good at identifying issues, organizing thoughts, and finding gaps in thoughts.
Matt and Nick worked on an ugly but extremely functional outline. It is not pretty, but it has enough detail to actually help describe what will be written.
Matt then records what he wants a chapter to be verbally. He might also share some old podcasts that also describe the issue.
Nick was able to get the transcript from the audio using this service. AI has made transcriptions inexpensive, quick, and easy.
How to Write a Book: Developing an Idea
Not everyone should write a book, but likely some people who should never do.
Matt had burning ideas that he had been developing for years and decades, and the opportunity arose and he seized it.
Before this, remember, he had been writing articles, recording podcasts, and discussing things on YouTube for years if not decades.
Start getting your idea out there. Talk about it, write about it, share it with people. Get feedback. Don't expect to go from idea to book.
Some ideas should just be a podcast or article. Some ideas are books.
Similar to how Matt would recommend starting a business, don't go from nothing to book, but start organically developing the idea. You may eventually publish or self-publish a book.
Nick recommends this needing to be important to you and your values divorced from its success. You have to want to get this idea out there and see the benefit in developing the idea.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Barbell Logic. |
| 0:04.7 | The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength. |
| 0:08.3 | And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life. |
| 0:15.0 | It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | He was, I was asking him. |
| 0:46.6 | He said he was in one time in a hotel room when Scott and I were recording and he said hi. |
| 0:51.3 | And, but I'm excited. We're gonna talk a little bit about what the process was like right in the book so hey man welcome to the show |
| 0:56.8 | Hey, thanks for having me. It's interesting to be on this side of the microphone for once. Yeah, you've only listened to every podcast we've ever put out as the editor-in-chief, both the raw and |
| 1:06.5 | the edited versions and so excited to have you on. |
| 1:09.8 | So we just wrapped up writing Undoing Urgency, the book that Forbes is publishing, you were the editor-in-chief, |
| 1:16.0 | you've helped with the manuscript and helped write other books in the past. |
| 1:19.9 | You can name those if you want to, if not, it's totally fine. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm interested in what this process was like and kind of walk through that |
| 1:26.0 | mostly for people one they're just interested in like what it's like to write a book |
| 1:30.0 | and if they're interested is they start to think about what they have if they've got a thought or you know kind of a value driven lifestyle or something that they want to get out to the masses in a long form version that is more than certainly more than anything you put out on |
| 1:46.4 | social media and even more than you could do in a singular podcast even a long one even a |
| 1:51.2 | two hour two and a half hour podcast what that process is like right in the book. |
| 1:55.4 | So let me just start here is like 30,000 foot view. |
| 1:59.7 | What was it like helping me write the book under an urgency? |
| 2:03.8 | Yeah, so the first thing that people kind of get hung up on is they either think |
| 2:07.8 | writing a book is impossibly hard or it's much easier than it actually is. |
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