{"id":27,"date":"2008-10-27T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:01:04","slug":"which-book-should-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2008\/10\/which-book-should-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Book Should I Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hmmm...which book should I write?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

People often come to me with more than one great book idea.\u00a0 One thing I do as a writing coach is help them evaluate which book to write. Here are a few ways to evaluate for starters:<\/p>\n

1. Goal based<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  • Identify Your Goals.<\/li>\n
  • Evaluate each book project on how well it meets your goals.<\/li>\n
  • If there’s a tie, of the two or three that meet your goals best, which do you feel most excited about?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    2. Passion\u00a0 based<\/strong><\/em>: On a scale of 1-10, ten being most inspiring, rate each potential book project. Which ones are a ten? If none is a ten, ask yourself, what’s missing? What could make this a ten?<\/p>\n

    3. Market based<\/strong><\/em>: Answer these questions:<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Who’s your natural audience?<\/li>\n
    • Who do you tend to work with or whom do you want to work with in the future?<\/li>\n
    • What are their biggest challenges or problems (in their eyes and their own words)?<\/li>\n
    • Which of your book ideas would help them solve these problems or address their challenges and offer the results or benefits they’re looking for?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      I’ll often help them understand what factors might make the book more sell-able in the current market, but, ultimately, I also want them to look within. I often take them through a visualized journey where they connect with their muse. If their muse contradicts my advice? I say,\u00a0 go with your muse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      People often come to me with more than one great book idea. One thing I do as a writing coach is help them evaluate which book to write. Here are a few ways to evaluate for starters:<\/p>\n

      1. Goal based:<\/p>\n

      * Identify Your Goals.
      \n * Evaluate each book project on how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1678,1,28],"tags":[907,908,38,1683,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-27","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-how-to-write-a-book","7":"category-more","8":"category-writing-coach","9":"tag-book-ideas","10":"tag-choose-a-book-idea","11":"tag-how-to-write-a-book-2","12":"tag-write-a-book","13":"tag-writing-coach-2","14":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279504,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/279504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}