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Chapter Two
Choosing What To Write About
When it comes to writing your book the main reason that you haven’t finished writing is because you don’t know what to actually write about. You have tons of ideas written in the notes section of your phone, the endless piles of ideas on post it notes, the ideas scribbled on ripped up pieces of paper thrown in your everyday bag and yet you still can’t decide on the best book idea. Maybe you are different and you actually have a solid book idea but you just can’t seem to see why you should be writing about it. You know you are an expert in your industry but something about that idea doesn’t light a fire underneath you. You can easily be the one who has completed your book and hasn't released it yet. You now want to write something completely different because the first book just doesn’t feel like you know it now. You've grown since you've written your book last year and that's okay, there’s a simple way to repurpose that old content and turn it into a best selling book idea.
What you are supposed to write about, should speak to you just like it will speak to the people buying it. These people want to feel like you wrote this book just for them even though you actually wrote it for everyone in your audience or lack thereof. Your goal with choosing your book idea is to have just that one person feel something when they are reading your book.
A lot of times what’s holding people back is they think that they need to write a book that everyone will read but not everyone will actually read your book. There's a slim amount of people that will actually read your book and then there's an even less amount of people that will actually leave a review. There will be people that even think they wasted their money on your book. So the goal should be if you can get one person who will read from beginning to end, one person who will leave a mind-blowing, tear dropping, screenshotting, Instagram posting review, and one person who buys ten copies for everyone they know and even one more person who will recommend your book to everyone they meet on the street, on the bus, at the mall and even in church while sis so and so is reading the long list of dates during the announcements.
The goal is to just get one, I want to challenge you to stop thinking about the number of copies you want to sell for a minute. I want you to think about that one person you want to impact and I want you to write for them. Always think of them, and never stop writing for them. That person will become your biggest fan and they will rock with you until the wheels fall off. If you do nothing else, I want you to keep in mind that one is better than one million, the less people you can impact the louder the echo becomes. I know you’re probably asking yourself what the hell does that even mean. Some of you are probably googling right now to see if that's a real quote. It's not, we can’t afford the copyrights to anyone’s quotes, so when there’s a fire quote you like just know Shanikua Brown made that up on the fly. So, what I mean by that is that one person screaming sounds better and more understandable then having ten other voices screaming. Do you remember in elementary school when your teacher would scream shut up because she couldn't hear herself think while the entire class was screaming over each other when we were supposed to be silently reading? No, okay so it was just my class. This goes for getting to hear one person's impact over all of the “it was a good read.” “I would highly recommend it.” Yes, five stars.” common reviews on amazon. There’s power in the voice of just one.
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Excerpt from my recent book releasing 2021.