The Writing Begins
Today I will begin writing my masterpiece. Well not so much a masterpiece as it will be a helpful guide in getting your own blog created and then getting it ranked highly by google and other search engines. But the point of this whole thing isn't about the contents of my guide. No it's how do I get it online and start making money with it.
However, before we can worry about getting it online we have to write it. Here is how I like to get started, and it's probably not any different that what your grammar school teacher taught you. Lets see if we can remember what that whole process was all about.
The very first thing I did was start writing down my ideas for topics to include in the guide. This is usually just a bulleted list of ideas, an example for my first guide is below.
- What is a blog?
- Why blog?
- Blogging Platforms
- Setting up Blogger
- Customizing Blogger
- etc.....
As you can see I don't put too much effort into the first pass. I basically treated this as a first pass at brainstorming. I just really want to get out of my head any ideas I have that might be useful in the document. After I have this down on paper, I then start to get a little more detailed. By detailed I start to break down each of the sections a little more. You can probably see where I am going with this, each step gets a little bit more detailed, and essentially you've created an outline for your whole project. The best part of this is that once it's complete you'll have all the real hard work done. Now all that's left is writing the content, and you don't have to worry about what else to include.
One thing to keep in mind when your doing your outline. I had a professor once tell me in a research paper that if you have an "A" there must be a "B". Basically what he is saying is that under each of your sections, if you have a subsection there must be at least two subsections, just one won't do. Yes everything you learned in 5th grade is actually coming in useful, imagine that.
In the next post I'll cover how I start filling out my document once I've got the outline completed. Keep in mind that we are creating a process here that we will want to repeat in the future. One of the things I've done is create a generic outline document in Microsoft Word that I use each time I create a new document. Basically I just save it as new file name when I've customized it for each new subject. You don't need to do this, it's just a bit of a time saver for me.
Posted on: Apr 04, 2009
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