12 Ways to Organize Your Book Ideas Before You Start to Write

Many WNFIN participants write a nonfiction book in a month–one reason I’ve chosen this year to also call this event National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). So many nonfiction books get written in November in addition to articles, essays, book proposals, and more. To accomplish the task of completing a book in 30 days, however, it’s important to start your book project in an organized manner. I don’t know anyone better at finding creative systems for organizing just about any writing project–including books–than author and book coach Roger C. Parker. That’s why today’s WNFIN’s guest blog post is written by Roger and covers some remarkable ways to organize your book project to increase your chances of completing it before month’s end. NA

To write a nonfiction book as efficiently as possible, you need to start by organizing your ideas.

Starting to write a book without a content plan is an invitation to false starts and wasted effort. It’s as foolish as trying to drive from New Hampshire to San Diego without referring to road map, intending to navigate entirely by intuition. You may end up there, but you may have wasted a lot of time (and gasoline) on unnecessary detours and dead ends.

You don’t have to know exactly what you’re going to write about in each paragraph of every chapter. (To read the rest of this blog post, please click here.)

This post is part of  National Nonfiction Writing Month and the Write Nonfiction in November challenge. To learn more about these events, please visit www.writenonfictioninnovember.com, this blog’s sister blog.

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