Want to Write a Bestseller? Heed This Advice
by Beth Mende Conny
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Attribution: © 2002-2009 Beth Mende Conny. Beth Mende Conny is the founder of WriteDirections.com and the author of more than four dozen books and collections.
- Before you write a bestseller, write a book.
- Before you write a book, write a chapter.
- Before you write a chapter, write some paragraphs.
- Before you write some paragraphs, know what you will say.
- Before you know what to say, pinpoint what you WANT to say.
- Before you pinpoint what you want to say, ask yourself why you want to say it.
- Before you ask yourself why you want to say it, listen to the voice that forms the question.
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Beth Mende Conny is the founder and president of WriteDirections.com. She has published more than four dozen books and collections, and helps individuals and businesses bring their projects to publication. She can be contacted at Beth@WriteDirections.com.