How to Write a Book in 30 Days

Are you thinking about writing a book, but don’t know how to get started? This step-by-step guide will show you how to write a non-fiction book in 30 days. This is the exact process that I’ve used to write over 300 bestsellers and teach thousands of new writers to create their very first book.

This process is designed to last thirty days because this is a manageable amount of time. You want a goal that feel achievable and is in a short enough time frame that you won’t lose focus. This simple book writing process works because it’s easily measurable. We’ll give you a clear process to follow with the goal of completing your entire manuscript this month.

We’ll also recommend some great tools that will make the process easier for you. All writers are different and everyone has their own approach. It’s ok to use different software or a different process than another writer. You don’t need to replicate anyone else’s process. It’s ok to be unique.

So whether you’re an experienced writer or a complete novice, follow these steps and I’ll teach you how to write a book this month.

Find Your Perfect Reader

Who do you want to help? Who is the ideal reader for your book? If you could get just one person to read your book, who would that be?

Writing a book for a large audience is really hard, but telling a story to a single friend is easy. You use the language and style of storytelling that you know they respond to. Use these questions to create the one person you are writing the book to.

This can be a real person that you know or an imaginary avatar that represents the bullseye of your ideal readers.

That imaginary, ideal reader can represent all the other people reading your book. Writing to one person is a lot easier than trying to write to an imaginary crowd.

When you know who your ideal reader is, it will be easier for you to write for them. They are the only person you are speaking to inside your book. Making language choices and deciding if a section is boring is a lot easier when there is only one person to measure against.

What do they want to learn?

Your book should teach your reader something new. What information or skills can you share with them that they don’t already have? Do they have a problem you can help to solve? Pain you can help to alleviate? Or a solution you can move them one step closer to?

While a fiction book’s purpose is to entertain, a nonfiction book is meant to educate. There is still an emotional journey, but there is a big idea that you build the book around.

The bigger the problem you solve for a reader the more likely they are to buy your book. If you solve a problem that causes them pain from the moment they wake up until the moment they go back to bed, they are more likely to read your book than if you solve a problem that won’t start for ten years.

In addition to how much your book will affect the reader’s life, your level of passion is also important.

Write a list of potential book topis and then choose the one that you are most passionate about. While expertise on a subject is valuable, readers are more likely to finish the entire book if they sense your passion coming through the pages. The more they feel a sense of rapport with you, the more they will engage with the material.

It also helps that writing about your passion is a lot more fun. A writing career doesn’t have to feel like work. Successful writers enjoy their work.

How do you want to help them?

What is your ideal reader’s biggest problem. How can you help them solve it? Your book should offer a solution to your reader’s problem.

We’ve looked at the reader’s motivation, now we want to look at yours. What is the best way you can improve you ideal reader’s life? How can you transform their life in a positive way?

There are multiple solutions to every problem. Do you have something to say that gets you really excited?

Find Your Purpose

Why are you the one to write this book? What’s your unique story? What experiences do you have that make you the perfect person to write this book?

There are millions of books on every subject already. It’s very rarely the information that’s unique, more often it’s the person telling the story.

What is your unique story, passion or vision. What’s driving you to write this book?

You are the lens through which a reader looks at hte information. The more of your personality you embed into the story, the more powerful the book will become. A really solid book will combine research, passion and a topic that readers care about. When you combine all three you’re ready to begin writing.

Choose a Writing Process

Are you going to write with a typewriter, a laptop on the beach or dictate your book? Each writer has their own process, so find the one that works best for you. There is no wrong method. The most important part of success for a first-time writer is speed to results.

We’ve all met the writer who’s been working on their book for decades and you don’t want that to happen to you. A traditionally published book takes 18 months from when the book is finished to when the first copy is for sale in a bookstore.

That extremely long production cycle is disheartening. The faster your book is finished, the easier it is to stay on track. For the same reason it’s easier to stick with a one week diet than a six-month diet.

Choose a writing method that will let you get your first draft complete as quickly as possible. Here’s a writing secret:

It’s easy to improve a bad rough draft, it’s impossible to improve a blank page.

Our goal is to finish your book in thirty days and dictation is going to be our secret weapon. I’ve dictated over 300 bestsellers and you’ll find there is no faster way to lay down a rough draft.

I Talk Different than I Write

That’s absolutely fine. The most important part of the writing process is laying down that first rough draft as quickly as possible. You can take that rough draft and edit and rewrite the entire thing book on your computer. We’ve found from working with thousands of clients that dictating your rough draft and then editing it to match your ideal style is massively more effective than trying to grind you a book using your keyboard.

If using the keyboard worked for you, you wouldn’t be here reading this article about how to write a book.

It’s much easier to polish a rough draft, even if you hate it, than it is to sit in front of a computer and write a book from scratch.

A lot of word processors underline words in red as soon as you make a typing mistake. We are trained to go back and fix that red error before we write the next sentence. This slows down the writing process as you start to think about editing and grammar which are logical processes rather than writing which is a creative process.

Dictation doesn’t allow you to edit. You can’t go back and change anything. You can only say it the right way after the mistake. The recording is always moving forward and forces you to lay down content in a purely creative process.

Create a Writing Space

Find a spot where you feel inspired. Your writing location is something sacred and should be a place where you are free to think and write without interruption. It doesn’t have to be a special room or anything like that, but it should be somewhere where you can focus on your writing.

Every writer has a favorite spot to work. If you’re dictating like I recommend, it can be at the park, in your car or at the beach. If you’re writing, then you want a dedicated writing space that gets your creative juices flowing.

My computer is set up in front of massive bay windows facing the ocean. I can’t use the computer during late afternoon because the sun is too bright, but the rest of the day I’m inspired by the view.

Your ideal writing space can be a coffee shop or a different chair in your house with your laptop. All that matters is you have a location that you think of as your writing space. When you go to that spot or sit in that chair, it will active the “time to write” part of your brain.

Develop a Pre-writing Ritual

Every great writer talks about getting into the zone or flow state. The faster you can go from thinking about other things to writing at top speed, the better. The way to accomplish this is with a pre-writing ritual.

Everyone has a different way of doing this, but your ritual should be a series of steps that you go through before every single writing session. This can be something as simple as disconnecting the internet, setting your phone to silent and making a cup of tea.

You want a series of physical steps that tells your body that it’s time to start writing soon. This is the first of the writing habits you want to develop.

A good ritual will train your mind that it’s time to write and you’ll find getting into the flow that much easier.

Select the Perfect Book Tools

There are hundreds of tools designed to make the writing process better. Some authors still write entire books with pen and paper, others use a lucky typewriter. One thing I have notices it that most authors lock into a process early in their career are rarely change it.

I’ve been using the same writing tools for a decade and I’m really unlikely to change my word processor, even if one with a few new features some outs. For that reason you want to take this step seriously.

Switching from writing books by hand to dictation was really challenging for me and my first dictated book was a nightmare. I was learning a new process and also unlearning an old one. I want to help you skip over that challenge.

Phone Dictation App

Most computers come with voice to text software that allows you to talk while words appear on the page. I don’t recommend that because you can still see the red underlining when you misspell a word and it can knock you out of your writing flow.

Instead, I dictate all of my books into an app in my phone. Right now the app I use is called Hi-Q, but it’s nothing special. I look for an app that has a good rating and automatically uploads backups to the cloud in real time. As long as the app creates backups in real time, I’m happy with it.

Try a few paid apps to see once that works for you and then upgrade to the paid version.

Scrivener

Scrivener is my favorite word processor and outlining tool. It’s great for writing books because you can see your entire outline at once and easily move sections around.

I also like how Scrivener keeps track of your progress and tells you how many words you have left to write in each section. This is a great way to stay on track and hit your daily word count goals. I like seeing my word count hit that daily goal so I can feel a sense of accomplishment when I’ve done enough work for hte day.

I have written numerous articles and trainings all around how Scrivener is the best word processor that I’ve every used. It’s my recommendation for the writing phase absolutely.

Word

Word it the most well-known word processor in the world for a reason. Many writers use it because it’s the gold standard. It’s reliable, automatically saves your progress and everyone is familiar with the format.

It’s the standard because it’s been around so long and my last editor always made me convert my books from Scriver to Word before she edited them. It’s kind of the universal format and fortunately Scrivener can export to Word format as needed.

Google Docs

You can work on your book from different locations and different devices. Google docs always syncs and saves your progress automatically.

The downside is that it’s not as feature-rich as other word processors, but it makes up for it with its ease of use and portability. I write most of my blog posts in Google Docs so that I can switch between my desktop. laptop, tablets and phones with ease.

Brainstorm Book Ideas

Every writer I talk to has more than one book idea in them. The key is to pick the right one.

There are a few things you should consider when brainstorming book ideas:

• Passions and interests
• Expertise and knowledge
• Experiences and stories

Your book idea should fit into one of these three categories. If it doesn’t, it’s probably not a good idea.

For example, I’m passionate about travel, but I don’t have any expertise or experience in the travel industry. So a book about how to travel the world on a budget wouldn’t be a good idea for me.

On the other hand, I’m passionate about personal finance, I have a lot of expertise and knowledge in the area and I have interesting stories to share. So a book about how to get out of debt and build wealth would be a good idea for me.

Build out a list of all your potential book ideas before you start narrowing down that list.

Decide Which Book to Write First

Now that you’ve brainstormed some ideas, it’s time to choose the best one. My primary business is an affiliate marketer, so I pick the book that will be the most profitable for that business. I come up with my book ideas using the creative side of my brain and I narrow down to the winner using the logical side of my brain.

There are several questions that you can ask to find which book you should write first.

Which book will make the most profit?

If you’re writing a book as part of your business, choose the one that will generate the most revenue first. Which book opens up the most profitable niche or do you have the most resources you can leverage? The profit from your first book can give you the runway for your passion project.

Which book you will finish the fastest?

You want to get your first book done as quickly as possible so that you can start generating revenue and building an audience. It’s better to finish a good book this month than a great book in five years.

Which book your the most passionate about?

Passion is the fuel for your writing engine. The more your book excites you, the more likely you are to stay the course. If you hate your book, you’ll get stuck in the middle.

Which book are you the most likely to finish?

One finished book is worth more than a hundred half-finished manuscripts. Choose the book that gives you the most points in the previous three categories. This is the book that you’re most likely to finish and that’s the most important part. This is how you write a book in thirty days.

Outline Your Book

Once you’ve decided which book to write, it’s time to outline it. This is where Scrivener comes in handy because you can see your entire outline at once. There are quite a few amazing dedicated outlining tools to choose from. Depending on the nature of your book, you may want a dedicated outlining option.

When creating my first outline, I like to start with a high-level overview of the chapters I want to include. Then I break each chapter down into smaller sections.

For each section, I write a brief description of what it’s going to cover. This helps me stay on track when I’m writing and make sure I hit all the key points I want to include.

Now that you’ve decided which book to write, it’s time to start planning it out. I like to use a simple three-part structure for my books:

1. The Problem
2. Part Two: The Solution
3. Part Three: The Results

This is the basic structure of how-to books, self-help books and business books. It’s simple and it works.

Part One: The Problem

In the first part of your book, you need to identify the problem that your reader is facing. This is where you do the bulk of your research. You want to make sure you really understand the problem and that you’re not just making assumptions.

To do this, you can talk to people who are experiencing the problem, read books and articles about it, and look for statistics that support your claims.

You can find so much information online these days that this section is usually my favorite because it writes itself. Find a forum where people discuss the problem and find the threads with the most comments and replies. If people are talking about it, then it’s important that your book include it.

Part Two: The Solution

In the second part of your book, you need to offer a solution to the problem you’ve identified in Part One. This is where you share your expertise and show your reader how to solve their problem.

To do this, you can share your own experiences, give step-by-step instructions, and recommend resources that they can use. You can even interview experts and distill their wisdom into language that regular people can understand and implement. You can be the translator rather than the expert.

Some problems have multiple solutions so this section can show multiple paths for your readers to choose from.

Just helping readers to understand their available options is valuable.

Part Three: The Results

In the third part of your book, you need to show your reader what they can expect if they implement your solution. This is where you show them how you’ve helped people who have been in their shoes and what results they can expect.

To do this, you can share case studies, testimonials, and statistics that support your claims.

Depending on the type of topic your covering, different types of proof will work the best. For a book on a medical treatment, you might have dozens of footnotes pointing to medical studies and peer-reviewed articles. For a book on finances, you might show case studies from companies that implemented your process.

The important thing is to back up your solution with real-world results to confirm that your idea is more than just an idea.

Writing Fiction

This is the one step that differs from writing non-fiction. If you want to write fiction, your book will be driven by characters and included dialog. In this additional step, it can help to create a character sheet for each character in your book. Even if you’re dictating the book, having a sheet that lists the character’s names and features really helps.

You don’t want to put the eye-patch on the wrong eye in chapter four!

When creating your outline, make sure to include character names more than you think that you need to. I’ve found when dictating fiction that if I don’t write down which characters are in each scene, I start to change character’s names.

Take Your Outline Deeper

An outline only needs to be as deep as it takes for you to know what you meant. Writer’s block happens when you hit a missing bullet point in your outline. If there was something you meant to say but you don’t remember or you can’t remember what was supposed to come next, you will stumble.

If you can fill in the blanks between each of your bullet points without needing any other notes to remind you, then your outline is complete. This usually means three layers to your outline – Chapters, sections, subheadings. Whether I’m using a mind map or linear outline, I find three layers works for me.

Test Your Outline

Have you ever written a list of tasks for the day and when you look a few hours later you cant’ even tell when you meant to do seventh? Sometimes this happens because the word got smudged and sometimes it’s because I didn’t write enough words to tell me exactly what the task was supposed to be.

After you finish your outline, wait at least one day and re-read the entire outline out loud. If you hit a single bullet point and think, “I’m not sure what I meant” then you have a problem. You need to fix that before you go into your writing phase because you will stumble. It’s better to fix those little gaps now.

Set a deadline for your research

Sometimes research becomes an excuse for inaction. If you’re book is going to take months of research, work on a different one first. We want to hit our goal of finishing your book fast, so create a realistic timeline for your research and make that a hard out.

I have seen writers get stuck in the research quicksand. There is always more information and a new study coming out. Waiting for that next piece of data can keep you frozen and your book will die before its even born.

Break Your book into Fragments

Your book should be broken into 500-word sections. This is where Scrivener really shines as it’s designed to let you write one small section at a time. If you’re dictating, your sections can be slightly longer but never more than fifteen minutes of speaking. Anything longer and there is a good chance you’ll lose your train of thought.

When an outline is properly fragmented you can write any section in any order.

This is our second defense against writer’s block. If you hit a section where you don’t know what to write, you can skip to the next section and keep writing.

This is better than slamming the brakes on your writing process and switching back into the planning part of the process. You can deal with that missing section after the rough draft is complete when you’re back on the computer editing and rewriting.

Set a Schedule

The key to success is consistency . Set aside time each day to write, even if it’s just for 30 minutes. The important thing is to show up and do the work. Over time, you will develop the habit of writing and it will become easier and easier to sit down and write each day.

It doesn’t matter when you have your writing sessions, but we find that scheduling them in advance and putting them on your calendar makes them more likely to happen. Every writer has a different time of day that works for them. Find the time that works best for you and put it onto your calendar. Treat it just like any other important meeting and you’ll start to get some actual writing done.

The key to writing a book in 30 days is to set a daily word count goal and stick to it.

When writing on the computer, I like to set my goals using the Pomodoro Technique. I break my day down into 25-minute blocks and I use a timer to stay focused.

For each 25-minute block, I set a goal for how many words I want to write. For me, that number is usually between 500 and 1000 words. Each time I finish a fragment, I can reward myself with a feeling of accomplishment and a little break.

Your schedule is determined by the word length. To finish a 30,000-word book in thirty days, you need to write 1,000 words each day. That means completing two fragments each session.

Dictating your book can be measured in minutes. Most people speak around 115 words pre minute, so you need to dictate for 9 minutes to hit 1,000 words per day. Can you commit to ten minutes of writing time a day?

Start Writing

The outline will never be perfect. The atmosphere will never be ideal. There is always a reason to delay just one more day from starting, but once you start doing that it will keep happening. Don’t let procrastination become your writing habit.

This is where the actual writing begins. You know how to write a book, now you just have to do it.

Writer’s Block

Be prepared for a little writer’s block and know that it doesn’t mean you’re a bad writer. It happens to most authors and it’s always a function of a flaw in the outline.

Write’s block means you don’t know what to write next. And that means you haven’t planned what’s going to happen next. Sometimes you are writing a section and you don’t like how it’s turning out.

Both of these problems have the same solution. Skip to the next scene. If that doesn’t work, skip to the next chapter. Finish your rough draft and then come back during the editing process and re-outline the missing sections.

A common mistake is to bring your writing to a screeching halt and say I can’t do more writing until I figure out this section. Don’t do that.

Write Without Editing

If you’re writing on the computer, turn off all the editing options. You don’t need those red and green lines distracting you. The goal now is to pour out words as quickly as possible. We can worry about grammar, story structure and perfection in the editing process.

Make a commitment to yourself to never hit the back arrow or the delete key. If you make a mistake just write the word again or leave the misspelling. It sounds a little strange because we aren’t trained to write that way in school, but for your book the only metric that matters is word count.

When writing your first draft, you can unplug the mouse. There are some pretty cool word processors that are designed to be mouse-less and it’s a good rule to create. As soon as you reach for the mouse, you know you’re doing something wrong.

Perfectionism Kills Great Books

Every single one of my books was published with mistakes in grammar, tense and spelling. Even books I published with a professional editor doing multiple passes, mistakes made it out the door. It’s the price of doing business. I love writing nonfiction and that means my books are educational and true stories about myself.

I don’t want those books to have mistakes, but I accept that they are inevitable.

The beauty of modern publishing is that I can get an email about a typo, update the master file on all the bookstores and push the update. The mistake is erased from history.

Whenever I meet an author who is on their tenth rewrite, I get sad for them. They are trapped in a perfection cycle and it’s impossible to achieve perfection.

I know a few authors who are much better writers than me, but nobody else knows because they’ve never published their books. They are still trying to make them perfect.

Let go of that fear. There are going to be typos and you are going to get bad reviews and it’s ok.

One percent of all the reviews on Amazon for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone are 1 star reviews. One of of every hundred people who read that book, hate it.

It doesn’t matter how great your book is, somebody will hate it.

Accept you’ll make mistakes

You’re going to say the wrong phrase, mess up sections and even repeat yourself during the rough draft process. I know that because I’ve done this. And it’s ok.

Show yourself a little kindness and mercy.

You can fix all of these mistakes in the editing and rewriting phases.

Release the Excuses

Everyone has a reason for why they haven’t started their book. When I tell people that I’m an author, they tell me they are an author too. A few minutes later I discover that they haven’t started writing yet.

This appears to a profession where you can say it’s your job even if you’ve never done it.

Everyone has a reason to start tomorrow. Don’t be that person.

Manage your book writing time

Be fastidious and strategic with your writing time. You have no idea how long it took me to write this article. And you don’t care.

Readers do not care how long it took you to write each chapter, so you might as well do it faster. Your book writing time is precious and you need to protect it however you can.

When I’m writing, I’m very strict about distractions and how loud my children are allowed to be. It’s the one time that I keep sacrosanct because losing your writing rhythm is the worst.

No worse feeling that losing your train of thought and you can’t remember what you wanted to say.

Turn off as many distractions as you can responsibly. Turn off the internet, social media and your phone. This is a window of time you need to protect.

Edit Your Book

Once you’ve laid down your book, the editing process is easier. Editing a book on your own is really difficult and paying a professional editor is really expensive.

The built-in editors, grammar checkers and spell checkers in most word processors are garbage. The spell check in Scrivener is the worst I’ve even encountered and it’s very frequently unable to figure out a word where I’ve only messed up a single letter.

The best option is a purpose built editing tool for this phase. There are four well known tools for this phase,

• Hemingway
• Grammarly
• Writer
• ProWritingAidc

I recommend using Pro Writing Aid. It’s an AI-powered editing tool that will help you improve your writing.

It’s really affordable and it has a free version that you can use to edit your book. If you’re going to go pro, get the lifetime license. It’s the best value and over time will pay for itself.

There are many different tools available to help you with the writing process, but ProWritingAid is one of the best. Here are some of the features that make ProWriting Add my favorite book writing software:

1. It can help you plan and structure your book. ProWritingAid will analyze your work and suggest a potential outline for you. This can be a great starting point for organizing your thoughts and getting a clear vision for your book.

2. It will catch errors and typos that you might miss. With ProWritingAid, you can be confident that your book will be free of any errors or typos. This will give it a professional look and make it more polished overall.

3. It can help you improve your writing style. ProWritingAid provides detailed feedback on your writing, including suggestions for improving clarity, conciseness, and more. This can be invaluable for polishing your writing and making it more engaging for readers.

Overall, ProWritingAid is an excellent tool for helping you write a book. If you’re looking for a way to streamline the process and produce a high-quality product, ProWritingAid is definitely worth considering.

Format Your Book

Once your book is edited, you need to put it into a format that the bookstores are going to like. For your paperback, this means a PDF file and for your ebook this means an ePUb file. Those are technical formats that don’t matter until your trying to upload to Amazon.

There are a few options that make it easy to format your book.

Scrivener

I love writing my books within Scrivener, but it also has some amazing export features. You can easily generate a final format that will look great from Scrivener. Scrivener calls this compiling and you can determine what each section-type will look like, the fil format and how you handle page breaks.

Many independent authors publish all their books straight from Scrivener. THe beauty of this tool is that you already own it, so it’s no additional cost.

Reedsy

My team and I ghostwrite a lot of books for clients and we deliver the final draft using Reedsy. It’s a free platform that generates all the necessary formats for you (EPUB, MOBI, PDF).

This tool has very limited options, which means it’s hard to break anything. It does one job and it does it very well.

It’s as easy as upload your manuscript file, choose your trim size, interior style and hit publish. Within seconds Reedsy generates a beautiful print-ready PDF that you can use as the interior for your paperback and hardback editions.

Vellum

I’ve been formatting my books with Vellum for years now and I love their platform. The tool is Mac-only, but it’s a good investment if you plan on writing multiple books.

Vellum automatically formats your book for Kindle, iBooks, and Nook, so you don’t need to worry about the different file types. Vellum also includes features such as an automated table of contents and live preview, which allows you to see how your book will look on different devices before you publish it.

There are a lot of sections that I re-use in my books, such as my “About the Author” page. With Vellum, I can drag these pages from one book in to the next. That makes my life a lot easier. It’s a great tool that gives you a little more power than Reedsy.

Create a Captivating Book Cover

It’s true that people will judge your book by it’s cover. It doesn’t matter how good your book is if nobody ever reads it. You want a cover that’s going to captivate potential readers and make them want to learn more about your book.

There are a few things you should keep in mind when designing your book cover.

First, you want to make sure that the title and author name are legible. The title should be big and bold, while the author name should fill the entire width of the cover.

Second, choose an image that represents your book’s core idea. One image to create one idea. This will be different for each niche. If your book is a cosy mystery, I will expect to see the murder weapon sticking out of a cake. The image should be clean and represent one word to avoid confusion.

Third, treat your book like a book cover. It’s not a piece of art. It is meant to represent very specific meaning. It needs to match your niche, look good in black and white and be clear even when it’s very small.

By following these tips, you can create a book cover that will captivate potential readers and make them want to learn more about your book.

Use a Template

The easiest way to create a create cover without breaking the bank is to use a template. I’ve spent years working with top designers to create the Ultimate Cover Collection. It’s a set of over one hundred book cover templates.

Each cover is modeled on existing bestsellers from the blocking to the colors to the text. Every single book has a unique back cover, with the perfect fonts. You can mix and match front and back covers to your heart’s content.

Every single cover comes with a front cover, paperback, audiobook and social media template. Everything you need to inspire you to create a high-converting cover.

Fiverr

My cover for Serve No Master cost only five bucks. It’s hard to find anyone one Fiverr that still charges this price. I usually hire three designers at the same time, so I have a large pool of options to choose from. This helps me find an amazing cover, rather than an acceptable cover.

Penji

At a certain phase in your business you need multiple designs every month. When that happens you need more than the a la carte options on Fiverr and less than the headache of a full time in-house graphic designer. That’s where a new breed of graphic design services come in.

There are lot of companies in this space now, so I’ve created a review of the best unlimited graphic design services to help you choose the best option. Right now my favorite is Penji, you can get an amazing design for your book cover and all your other graphic needs.

100Covers

The next level of cover design is 100Covers. They designed the cover for Give to Get and they are very serious about what they do. They are a little more expensive than the previous options but you’re going to get a cover that looks like a million bucks.

I’ve worked with them on multiple projects and when nothing but the best will do, this is the company that I work with.

Launch Your Book

Now that you have a finished book, it’s time to publish it. If you want to self-publish your book, the easiest way to do so is to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. KDP is a free service that allows you to upload your book in PDF or EPUB format and make it available for sale on Amazon.com.

When you upload your book to KDP, you’ll be able to set the price of your book and choose how you want to receive payments. Once your book is published, it will be available for purchase on Amazon.com and you’ll receive a 70% royalty on each sale.

By using KDP, you can self-publish your book and make it available for sale to millions of potential readers.

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Writing a book in thirty days is possible if you have something interesting to say and you’re willing to work hard. Commit to just thirty minutes a day and you’ll hit that thirty day goal. This article covers everything I’ve learned from writing and publishing over three hundred bestsellers and you know how to write a book.

The most important step is to sit down and start writing. My potential authors don’t fail in the middle of writing, they fail because they never start. Find your process and stick with it.

Find the writing tools that match your style, choose a writing location where you can focus and set aside time that you focus on writing and nothing else. With these steps taken care of you can start writing without distraction.

When you finish writing your book, please share a link in the comments below to help inspire other budding authors and show that it really is possible to write a book in thirty days.

Thank you so much for reading this article and I can’t wait to see you become a New York Times Bestselling author.