Concept Generator 5: From Challenge To Opportunity
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You confront challenges day-after-day. Most are minor, a few are great challenges. If you have ever confronted a big challenge, or if you are facing 1 today, then looking at the things you learn from the challenge can help other individuals. Whatever your challenge is, whether it is moving or facing a serious illness, others face the same challenges, and in those challenges rest the sources of books.
Construct a list of twenty challenges you have confronted in your lifetime. Anything catastrophic measures up: suffering job loss, confronting bankruptcy, the treachery of a spouse. If you have had a calm lifespan, then construct a list of challenges that the individuals you know have confronted.
Further challenges you are able to consider include any habit you have broken, from drugs to overindulging.
When you have completed brainstorming, you will have dozens of book ideas. Sifting out the losers. Do not delete them, move them to a different computer folder. Call it “Revisit Ideas” or “Idea Pool”.
Checklist: Is this the correct concept for you now?
You have went through the concept generators, and you have 1 or more concepts which you feel would serve for a book. The next phase is to size up your first concept carefully.
Consider your concept and consider this list of questions. Determine if you are able to answer “Yes” to all of them:
* Am I zealous enough about this topic and my concepts on it to sell this proposal to an writing agent and an editor in chief – and to the audience?
* Can I hold my exuberance through the weeks it can take me to finish the book?
* Is there a marketplace for my book? (I have checked Amazon.com and bookstores for competitive titles. I am confident there’s a market for my book.)
* I will find individuals with professional knowledge to interview as I compose my book.
* Can my book supply answers to problems?
If you are able to answer YES for most of these questions, you are ready. Great! Now lets begin work on your proposal.
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October 23rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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