How to Write An eBook in a Week

Before I give you the steps to writing an eBook in a week, I want to state that there are 3 limitations. If you want to write an eBook in a week, you MUST solve these limitations. If you cannot, your eBook writing time will be prolonged by the extent that you do not address and solve these limitations.

1) You must know what you are going to write about. Meaning that if you are writing about something you don't know anything about, you will have to add research time to your time frame. That means that if it takes you one month to learn what you are going to write, then it will take you one month + 1 week to write your eBook, not just one week.

2) You must be able to type at 20 words per minute, yielding 1200 words per hour.

3) You must be able to write for 10 hours at 1200 words per hour to write a 12,000 word eBook. If you want to write a 24,000 word eBook, you will have to work 20 hours. And if you type at 40 words per minute, and work for 20 hours, then you can write a 48,000 word eBook.

This understanding of your writing speed and time you put in is critical for getting to a certain amount of writing per week. It is kind of like if you are going to drive 500 miles. If you drive 50 miles per hour, you can get there is 10 hours. If you drive 5 miles an hour (like on a bicycle) it will take you 100 hours. It is the same thing with writing. If you type slow, your eBook will take longer. If you type less than 20 words per minute, I suggest taking a typing class. It will pay off in huge multiples in the long run.

So now that we have the limitations out of the way, let's talk about actually writing the book.

The first step is an outline. I suggest writing out 10 - 12 topics that you want to include in your eBook. Then under each topic, write 10 - 12 steps or ideas that you want to teach on for each topic. This will give you a total of 100 - 144 steps or ideas to write about. If you write just 1 page per step, you will have 100 pages. If each page is 250 words, you will have 25,000 words. At 20 words per minute, that is about 22 hours of writing, plain and simple.

It is key that you break this into these small steps. Think about it - once you have your 100 ideas to write about - this gets really easy. Because you can easily write 250 words about any idea, right? Think about this article - one idea, 492 words. Just think about writing 100 articles, 250 words at a time.

If I Write an Ebook, How Will I Know It Will Sell?

One of the most difficult aspects of eBook writing is knowing whether or not your ebook's niche is a winner or a dud. There are methods for conducting market research that will give you a good idea whether or not an idea is profitable, however none of these methods are completely trustworthy. Today I will provide three steps to help you accurately determine whether or not your eBook will sell.

Step One There are two options in this first step. The first option is the easiest. Simply create a short report based on the eBook you want to create. So, in essence, you're creating a short version of your ebook. Plan to give this report away in order to generate subscribers. The other method is a little more time consuming, but also more accurate. For this method, create your ebook, but don't go all out. Make it a bit shorter than your final eBook would be. Set a low price point of this ebook. Once you decide which option to use, proceed to step two.

Step Two The second step involves creating tightly targeted articles on each of your ebook's topics and uploading them to one very high trafficked article directory. I suggest you write 50 altogether over a ten day period. In your resource box, place an invitation to either signup for your free report or if you created the short ebook, direct readers to your sales letter. You will get a good idea about the profitability of your niche based on the response you get. The next step is to be performed in conjunction with this step for maximum results.

Step Three For this third step, you'll create 10 videos and submit each of them to three highly trafficked video sharing sites. I recommend uploading one video per day (to each site). Use the same instructions I provided for the articles in step two by creating content which is targeted to your niche.

I also recommend that you do some promotion for your articles and videos by posting links from your social network sites to them. This will give you a little more link juice and help you generate more traffic.

The key for doing this technique right is speed. You can't take six months to write the 50 articles and produce the 10 videos. Performance of this content in a specific time frame is important. I recommend this entire process take you no longer than 10 days. After 10 days, you should be getting subscribers or customers if your niche is hot. If you have hardly any response, then you should seriously reconsider writing an eBook in this niche.

This method may sound terribly painstaking to you. However, keep in mind that your efforts wouldn't be wasted. If there's very little response to your article and videos, change the links out and add links to affiliate products. On the other hand, if you get a good response, then you already have a jumpstart on advertising.