Efficient Book Writing provides a step-by-step strategic guide to book writing productivity and success:

Plan your writing

• Identify your purpose
• Consider your target audience
• Examine your writing situation

Gather ideas and create your outline

• Start with yourself
• Keep an idea book
• Maintain a journal
• Do freewriting
• Hold brainstorming sessions: cubing, similes, journalists' questions, mapping
• Create your book's outline

Develop your content: from first draft to finished book

• Write your book bit by bit
• Speak your book
• Rewrite, revise, and edit your book

Systematize your writing process

• Identify your writing challenges
• Overcome perfectionism and silence your inner critic
• Make time for writing
• Develop your writing routine
• Choose a conducive environment to write

Get your writing done

• Start very small and build on it
• Take a writing challenge or retreat
• Use If-Then planning
• Create a sense of urgency
• Be accountable
• Reward yourself regularly

Intended primarily for aspiring and beginning writers, Efficient Book Writing helps you develop a strategic and systematic approach to start and complete your writing project with the least amount of stress and frustration, whether you are writing an article, blog, or book.