Write the proposal
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Day Six Task
Task One: Write the initial draft of your book proposal
Write the draft quickly. Don’t think too much about it. In your initial draft, you aim for quantity, rather than quality.
Relax! You’ll write your draft in stages
Today’s the big day. You’re going to write your book proposal. If you’re starting to freeze up at the thought, relax. You’ve already done a lot of preparation work, and you’re not going to write it all at once. You’ll write it by taking the proposal through several clearly defined stages:
A. First draft. This is your “thinking” draft, in which you think on paper. Within this draft, you write whatever you wish. You are shooting for for quantity here, instead of quality. Write this draft full-steam ahead, without stopping to look things up. Consider “writing” this draft by talking into a tape recorder.
If you need to do some spot research, just leave a note to yourself, and keep working on the draft. You can look up individual items later. The benefit of doing specific research later is that you may find it’s unnecessary. It’s quite possible that you’ll eliminate this material from a later draft.
B. Your second draft. Your 1st draft has indicated to you what you would like to state. In this draft, you have a chance at telling it. In your second draft, you organize. You decide what material you want to include, and perhaps expand on, and what material you’ll delete. Think of this draft as shaping your material.
Occasionally you’ll want to take this shaping draft through several documents. You may have a B1, B2, B3 and B4 version, for example.
Keep your drafts.
Use the “File, Save As” menu option of your word processor to keep versions of your book proposal. When you change the name of the file as you work through different versions, it means that you can always go back and reinsert something that you deleted, because it’s in a previous version.
C. Your clean-up draft. Your final draft. You have stated what you would like to say, now you get a opportunity to state it better. You clean up the redundancies and spice it up.
Paradoxically, the easiest way to write well is to allow yourself to write badly. Every day. This is because writing is hard when you try to think and write at the same time. Permit yourself to think in writing for as many drafts as you require. Then compose the final draft confidently.
Woody Allen once said that 90 per cent of success at anything was just showing up. I’ve found that that’s very true. So no matter how bad you feel your writing is at any given time, go ahead anyway. Your writing is not as bad as you think, it’s simply a crisis of confidence, and even if it is rough when you first get it on the computer screen, it can be fixed. However, if you hesitate, and don’t get it on the computer screen, you have nothing to fix. Get it done!
At the end of this book, in the Appendix, you’ll find the complete proposal for my book 7 Days To Easy Money: Copywriting Success. This is a real proposal, and it won an agent contract on first reading. Read it through so that you can see exactly what goes into creating a proposal.
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