I'm Writing A Book. Where Do I Start?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0167 Carrie is ready to write a book but is feeling overwhelmed by the process. Where should she start? http://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ In this episode I mention the following resources: - My book, eBooks the Smart Way: http://ebooksthesmartway.com/ - The mind-mapping tool MindMeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/ - The writing tool Scrivener: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php - The books “The One Thing” by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller, as well as “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott - SPI episodes 79 (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/book-marketing-time-travel/), 42 (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/kindle-publishing-tips/), and 124 (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/author-empire-steve-scott/) Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPAT.
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0:09.0	Askpats.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:12.0	Pat Flind here and welcome to episode 167 of Ask Pat.
0:16.0	How are you doing today?
0:17.0	I hope you're doing well.
0:18.0	I am doing fantastic.
0:19.0	And before we get to today's question from Kerry, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is FreshBooks. FreshBooks is the easy-to-use
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0:34.5	tax season, it's going to help you out so much. It's something I wish I knew about when I was first starting out.
0:39.1	So if you'd like to get a free trial of freshbooks, just head on over to getfreshbooks.com and enter Ask Pat in the how did you hear about us section.
0:47.9	Now let's get to today's question from Carrie.
0:51.3	Hey Pat, this is Carrie Clark from Speech and LanguageKids.com.
0:55.0	First of all, let me just say thank you so much for everything you've done for me.
0:58.0	I found your podcast about two years ago and by following the suggestions on it, I've been able to quit my job, start a private practice, and now I have a blog, a podcast, a YouTube channel, and two ebooks that I'm selling on my website.
1:13.1	I'm just so grateful for everything you've done for me.
1:15.5	I am ready now to take that next bold move, though, and I've decided that I'd like to write a book to publish on a bigger platform such as Amazon.
1:23.7	So following your teachings, I've asked my followers what they wanted.
1:26.6	I have a great topic in mind, and I've started a Facebook group full of supporters for me.
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