We hope this post has helped you determine a good ebook word count for your book. If you have any questions or comments, let us know below. Do you have a blog idea or topic you know our readers or authors would love? Contact sarah mybookcave. Thought I will have to trawl through a myriad hoops to find the info required, but is was quicker than I thought.
What you see is what you get. I knew when I bought this book that it was a novella and the entire story would be condensed, but I felt this was too condensed. I am writing an ebook on learning to play the piano in retirement, even if you have never played before. There are other aspects to this book, and I am expecting it will be about 15, to 20, words when finished.
How can I find out if there would be a market for such a book? Good article! I read a lot pretty much daily and have noticed many Sci Fy novels in the 75K word count range. They feel too short! My first novel ran K words, the next one most likely K. The story takes what it takes to tell it well.
Tell your story. Enjoy the creativity and living through the writing of your book. Robert Day. I am creating a book whose objective is to simplify a complex subject — General Systems Theory. No pages of text. I think about 25 pages of text plus about a dozen supporting graphics will do the trick. Can I create such an eBook from a page count perspective.
Very helpful. Thank you. After I finish my blog series on coping for depression I want to write my first ebook on the principles, and a workbook to complement and it. The Write Practice considers a short print book to average 25, words , which is around pages. You can turn your short ebook into a free giveaway that you can offer your target audience in exchange for their email, which is a popular and effective way to build your email list.
In fact, as far as length, Her ebook is a guide for aspiring entrepreneurs and solopreneurs and walks people through, step-by-step, finding their ideal businesses. Just check out which articles and topics are the most popular among your blog readers. Like with any piece of valuable content that you create for your audience, a bit of customer research goes a long way. Ask your audience what they want to learn more about and what they need help with. And then ask them to describe their pain points.
Creating a short ebook is an ideal option for e-readers who want to spare shorter attention spans and learn something valuable on your topic for free. The medium length is a natural fit for supplementing or replacing a print book version of work.
Also, a micro-fiction is around words , a flash fiction between —1, words, and a short story between 1,—7, words. As you can tell, word count is all over the map, and all of these may or may not follow the same guidelines. The KDP royalty pricing formula gets pretty complex, so if you want to avoid it altogether, a cleaner and more profitable way to distribute your ebooks is by self-publishing and selling your ebooks directly to your e-readers.
OMG I am sooo doing this!! Time is certainly going to be an issue, BUT if I can earn a smart phone during November agreement with my hubs, lol — lost some points by getting stitches in my thumb last night, oops!! Thank you!!!!! I absolutely agree with this. Anyone can create a fully-functional and high quality e-book in a month. Everything you need is time and will. I especially like the part with a timer — absolutely one of the best tools for writers. Thanks Nadia!
I highly recommend using this time and the momentum of the writing buzz to write an ebook. A group of us are going to be posting each week and coordinating our efforts on the 30days hashtag. I still have a few days to select my topic. Good luck, Cathy! Look at all these comments! I only have 12 recipes so far, but maybe I can pad it out.
Or something. All I know is I love making them, and showing people how to make them, and I figure that will somehow shine through in anything I write about them.
Thanks again for the motivation! Thanks Paul! You could also go for a shortish ebook that way 2 weeks of recipes sounds perfect and then write a more detailed ebook once you see how that one goes down. The parts of your post that I like the most are the ones related to being productive and also being accountable to both yourself and your target audience in terms of really committing yourself to achieving your goals.
Personally, I can very passionately speak in favor of being productive as well as maintaining your focus on achieving your most important goals because one of the main reasons why I have wasted my last 7 and more years not being able to make money online and also not being able to live my life to the fullest is simply because I was paying my attention to the wrong things.
Having said that, I am glad to tell you that I have recently started my first blog ever in order to connect with my audience and write on topics that they are truly interested in based on some of the tips you have generously shared with us here. Finally, any of your comments on my first ever post displayed on my first ever personal blog that I have recently created after a very painful, shocking and agonizing 7 year struggle of trying to make money online in order to reach and fully enjoy my ever desired dream lifestyle would be more than welcome and well appreciated.
Thanks Bruno … and very best of luck with your blog and with your goal. Hope it goes well! Notice the high confidence level there, yes? My one practical not motivational concern is that some sections will necessitate research that will bog me down during the writing phase.
Karen, that is tough — and when I made the outline, I decided to work on the probably slightly unfair! I always try to choose ebook topics that I already know a lot about, because I get bored quickly with research…. Best of luck! Nice Strategy Ali, I write about blogging from last one and half year.
Now I wanna publish my free ebook on wordpress customization and globalization. Now I am very motivated after reading this article. It need so much concentration and freshness also. Hope your strategy will also work for me. I was invited by a friend to participate in NaNoWriMo this year, and accepted.
However, since then, I have been really feeling that what I need to write is an eBook for my website, rather than fiction. I had just recently decided that was what I was going to do anyway — complete the task in the spirit if not the letter of the NaNoWriMo law. I like the public commitment and knowing that others are doing it too. Thanks — good luck everyone! Good luck with the ebook, Brent!
Hope you have a great November. Great piece of advice. Nice Article. I was in a process for my first e-book and i found this article on the right time. I have been toying with the idea for a couple of years now of just sitting myself down and getting started on a few topics I have in mind for E-Books.
I had never thought about the 30 minute timer before, that is an excellent idea! Not to mention I have an extremely bad habit of editing what I write as I go rather than using the draft type style.
I believe I may just sit down and get started…Thanks! Thanks Brad — and good luck! The timer trick works well for an awful lot of writers, so I hope it helps you out too. Thanks Ali, It already has to be honest with more than just writing, after reading this I also implemented the timer practice in my web development too. I always have a number of projects going at once and would often get caught up in one and fall behind in the others, using the time I have been able to work for a set time on all of them and work on all of them throughout the day.
Production is up! I wrote a short autobiography few years pass, protecting it and having it registered in the Library of Congress. I will have to re-write it to remove certain entries that will not take away any idea or points of information.
My current concern is time and eyesight,one eye and it is currently stable but somewhat diminished. I have the cover of the publication fixed in my mind, to posittively wet the mental appetite of every reader. I am presently redoing the book as an Ebook for online sales and have been trying to figure the whole process out. Your information has been a big help.
I am still going through your site and trying to implement the good suggestions. Thanks so much! Hi Ali — I write a blog for an online company which sells home decorations which are mostly handmade, mostly in South East Asia.
I have free rein for many of the posts and have enjoyed coming up with topics of interest to me. I would definitely need time to create and photograph the content. A couple of questions: is this challenge still going to work? What is your recommendation? Thanks for this inspiring-and-motivating idea. Best of luck, Jeff! I think serialising your ebook on your blog sounds like a great way to stay motivated.
Thanks so much Ali for doing this! I gave myself this goal for the month of October and it was an epic fail. I am definitely going to get it down this month!! May the games begin! I am in the process of writing an ebook over energy niche. Thanks for step by step process in writing an ebook. Timely and very informative. Could you let me know how to market our self made ebooks? Thanks, Richard, glad this was helpful! I started writing an e-book with maths exercises but I am kinda lazy and I get distracted very easily.
I think I will try the 30 days deadline, maybe I will be more motivated. Good luck, Thalinda! I hope I can still meet up with it at the end of November, I want my ebook to get published and I know that coming to here to read this article is not by my doing, it is just God that sent me here. Thanks very much Ali Luke. Thanks so much, Anthony! Reading this post i think that never ever give up. Write a good Quality post which will give you a best feedback like this post.
Thanks for these tips! I think planning it out like this will make it much more possible. Thanks, Vicki! And best of luck with your ebook — I think a good plan is always the best place to start. I was always a good writing in school and college and have always had good ideas. Writing an actual book, however, just seemed like a really intimidating task. I buy into the idea that you can write ebooks in 30 days and my experience has shown that to be entirely possible.
Nice article, it was a good read. Great post Ali. Which e-book creation platforms or methods do you recommend? Thanks for the great advice — very motivating. Do you have any advice on what platform to use to create the book? Thanks, Lisa. What a great post! I am definetly going to be participating in NaNoWriMo this year, thanks to discovering it with this post.
I have recently come up with an ebook idea, which has only been written about in two other ebooks. Do you think that this is probably an unpopular subject or an undiscovered niche by ebook writers? Are there any ways of going about finding this out? Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to primary sidebar. If those writers can do that, you can write a 20, word ebook in a month. Go ahead and write that idea down, and then store it in a safe place.
Leave it there for the next 30 days. A great ebook idea needs to be: Specific. If you do consulting or coaching, what problems come up again and again? Do your blog readers always ask for posts dealing with a particular issue? Ask your audience what they want, and give them a few possibilities to choose from. Be prepared to be surprised!
You might want to switch off your internet connection entirely, or use a program that blocks it for a certain period of time. Use a timer. Set a timer for 30 minutes , then write until the time is up. Having the minutes ticking away is a real help when you need to stay on-task. If you need to check a quick fact, look up a link or add a screenshot, mark the place with yellow highlighter or something else highly visible — and come back to it later.
Leave it and move on. You can come back to it at the editing stage and you may find that it works fine after all. The more you make writing a habit, the easier it becomes.
So, to see your eBook with fresh eyes, print it out — or transfer it onto your e-reader. Obviously, fix any glaring typos or mistakes that you spot, but avoid getting too bogged down. At this point, your ebook might look finished. Print out the ebook again, or view it as a PDF.
Read through slowly, checking every sentence and word. Right now is the best time to write. Reader Comments Believe it or not, I actually wrote my first eBook with in a week. I agree with you on the shortness of some ebooks for sale out there. I really like the outline. However, do you think this outline will work for an E-Cookbook? Reading your comment made me realize that this is equally applicable to video projects as well. This outline is extremely detailed and informative.
Hey Clayton and Ali! How about NaeBoWriMo? Thanks for this great post, and I too will be joining. Bought your Dummies book on writing an ebook. Thanks for writing that. Ali: Great write-up. I love your process. See you in LA! Cheers, Ricardo! I find timers incredibly useful when my focus is slipping. An excellent process.
I would add two things to it: on day 31, have Shane Arthur edit your ebook. Ali, You make some really great points here. Thanks from Serbia! Good luck with NaNo, Kiki! Hope it goes brilliantly for you. Hope that helps someone. Best, Jennifer. I think this process works well for fiction writing too. I agree, it absolutely works for fiction books. Already committed to it with a couple of friends… Thanks for the kick in the pants Ali! Hi Ali, Great job on making the writing process more accessible by putting it on a timeline.
Now you got me pondering. Very nice outline and making something as challenging as writing a book, to very simple. Great work. Writing a book is definitely challenging … but also definitely do-able. Very informative and timely!! Yay, and thanks Ngina!
Best of luck with your ebook. Just what I needed right now! Yay, thanks Nancy! Thanks Joseph! How about a shorter ebook 10, words, say — per day is an average blog post! Hi Ali, I happened to read this at just the right time, writing a book is definitely in my bucket list,starting with an e-book seems like a brilliant idea, really grateful for the way in which you have shared yourself so freely, am daring myself to write an ebook in a month, come 1st December, will be talking a different story.
Hurrah, and good luck, Veehcirra! Hope your November goes really well. Hurrah, and good luck in November! Hope you do go for those few pages a day! Do you have any advice or have you written any other posts on how to price eBooks? Best of luck getting back into it!
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