Steps in creating ebooks for passive income
(1) Figure out your niche
The first step is to figure out your expertise. Knowledge, experiments and practical experiences on what you write about are important for you to produce unique and authoritative content. Considering if you’ll write a fiction or non-fiction is important as it forms everything on top of your content.
(2) Research on best-selling titles
Next is to discover the titles that are in the best seller’s list of your expertise. If possible, read and research them, and take note of the ideas. Find missing points or use your existing resources to capture them. Start with abundance of ideas and write your musings in a commonplace notebook. The worst thing is to memorize them because our brains are not that good in remembering. At this point, your mind is still whirling, so don’t mind the grammar first or write perfect sentences. Just let your brain juices flow. Use word prompts. Word prompts are words, phrases, sentences, and even pictures that spark your imagination and enables you to write in your own word.
(3) Outline your Ebook
Next is outlining. Create three to five headings, and under each of them, create five subheadings. Then transfer your ideas and word prompts from the commonplace notebook under these outlines. Expand your word prompts according to your own words. The best thing is when you create an original material out of your own words. Be direct to the point if it’s non-fiction.
(4) Expand your outline
Make it your aim to create 250 words per subheading. So, if you have 5 headings with 5 subheadings each, you have a total of a 6,250-word ebook which is sufficient. A typical ebook does not need to be 25,000 words. 5,000 to 7,500 words will be okay.
(5) Improve your content
Perform first edit, then read the entire book to perform the second edit where you improve grammar, punctuation and layout. You may also let someone edit it.