BYOB: Are You Ready to Write Your Book in the Next Month?
What to do in the next three days to make sure you reach your big goal.
We’re three days away from starting the writing part of the Blog-Your-Own-Book Challenge.
Three days from a goal of writing 31 blog posts in 31 days, all on the same topic, that come together into a book.
Are you ready?
Just in case, came up with tips for you. I hope they help.
Make sure you’ve chosen the right topic.
I’ve talked to a ton of writers in the last month about their BYOB projects. One thing comes up over and over that I want to talk about for a minute.
Your topic should not be your entire empire.
Your empire = the business you want to build around your writing. AKA, your niche. My empire is ‘teaching people how to become writers.’
That’s way too big a topic for my BYOB project. Like I said, it’s my entire empire. I had to find a little slice of my niche to focus on for 31 days. For me, that’s ‘how to create a writing habit.’
In 31 days, I could skim along the surface of my whole niche. But the point of the BYOB Challenge is to go deep on one little part of it.
Think about your empire, the whole of your niche, and then choose one thing you can teach your audience about that thing. If you’re a fiction writer, that might be telling a series of connected short stories set in the world of your novel. If you’re an essayist, it might be delving into one specific thought or idea. If you’re a teacher-writer, maybe you’ll do what I’m doing and teach something on a deeper level than you could with a single blog post.