Once you have your basic structure all figured out, it is very tempting to start writing straightaway, but there is one more thing you should check before you do so.
It is almost certainly the case that you will have to do some kind of research to enable you to write your eBook, although the amount you have to do will depend largely on how well you know your chosen topic to begin with. If you are writing about something you do every day and you know the subject inside out, the only research you may have to do is the checking of specific figures or resources that you want to give to your readers.
If on the other hand you are only vaguely familiar with the subject, then you will need to do a lot more research to gather together enough material to enable you to write your book. The point is that you should look through your structure as you have it written down and work out whether there is enough there to write your eBook as you want to write it.
It may be that one or two chapters stand out as being a lot shorter than all the rest; if this is the case, have you fleshed them out enough? Are there aspects of those particular topics that you haven't actually covered in enough detail? If you were reading an eBook on that subject, what would YOU want to know?
By doing this at this stage, you will avoid hitting a block during writing or struggling to figure out how to avoid having a too short eBook when what you really wanted was something meatier.
If you can't find a way past a particular point in your structure, hop online and do some research on that topic. I have done this in the past and it is quite amazing how many times you will visit a website and read an article that will trigger off another idea or some other aspect of the topic that you had completely forgotten about.
Never forget the power of the internet for helping you with material, but always remember that you cannot copy the work of anyone else because that constitutes plagiarism. The idea is to jot down ideas and information that you find online (and in other sources as well, such as books and magazines) and then work it into your own words, so that you come up with something totally unique.
And you will usually find that you can inject your own thoughts into the information you have as well, so that your own voice starts to make itself known through your writing - and that will give you some really great results that you can truly be proud of!
If you find you have a couple of chapters that are very short, you might be able to combine them with another chapter on either side of them. This doesn't always work, but quite often a part of your topic which is extremely short in nature is that way because it is sitting in a place which is unnatural for it. So think about whether this could be the case, and don't be afraid to edit your structure as necessary - it's a lot easier to do this before you actually start writing!
Author Resource:-
Scott Boyd is an author of Internet Marketing and Health related Books. See more information about writing, publishing, and selling eBooks at Writing Publishing EBooks.
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