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1. INTRO: I want to welcome
you to my course, the easy way to write
a book, a cheap way. So basically, you're
probably wondering, okay, so cut to the chase. What's the easiest
way to write a book? Well, the easiest way to write
a book, believe it or not, it's just a Speak it into an audio recorder or
speak it into your phone. And then what you do is
you get that audio file. You get someone to type it up, and then you get a book editor to turn into a book and
make it make sense. And then you get someone
to format the book. So a format or who's
going to put it into a file that can be uploaded to Amazon and
self-publish on Amazon. So that's the easy
way to write a book. I want you to keep working at this course if you're
just doing it. So there are four basic steps. Torque your book
into an audio file. Get someone to type it up and take out all the ums and ahs, get a book editor to
make it make sense. Then give it to
someone who's going to format that book,
that finished book. So that can be uploaded to Amazon and self-published
on Amazon. That whole process, even if it's like got 12 or 15 chapters, that whole process should
take you a month and a half, but you're part is one
day or two days, max, for you to speak your
book into existence would take you a day or a day
and a half or two days. I'm going to talk you
through the whole process, tell you how it's done. Keep watching for this
class if you're interested.
2. Lesson 1 Speak your book: So welcome to the first lesson of how to write a book really
quickly, the cheap way. Okay, so the first
thing we're gonna do right in our book is we're going to speak out
book into an audio recorder. This is a Zoom H1 and
there's many of them really. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna speak out, we're going to speak out our
book into our fine because many smartphones is a way that we can do audio recordings. Okay, so what do we wanna do? I think what we wanna
do is we want to speak each chapter for about
40 min, 20-40 min. Okay, so I'm going to talk into that dictaphone for 40 min. And each time I talk
into it for 40 min, it's gonna be chapter
one and chapter two, and chapter three and chapter
four and chapter five. What I want to talk
about in each chapter is about 17 to 23 things. Okay, So let's say
with my first book, 18 psychiatric
admissions and counting, the first chapter that I did in the book was simply called
the, the early years. So there, there is a chapter that's called
the early years. So what I would have, the way that I would do is
I'd have a sheet of paper and I'd have about 23 things
written on that sheet of paper. And I would just talk
through each one of them. So to give an example, in my first book, 18 sockets admissions
and counting, when I talked about
the early years I was talking about I'll do an intro about how old I
was, what year I was born, where I grew up, the
hospital that I was born in, and then the neighborhood
that I grew up in. And I would talk about obviously
my mother or my father. I'll talk about my two brothers. I'll talk about my grandmother. Some of the things
she used to say an infant she had on me, talk about I grew up in
when I was very young, grew up, I was born 9,600.70. So now talking about
the seventies and the 70s culture and what
is culture is all about. I will talk about the
school that I went to, kindergarten I went to than the primary school and
I'll talk about a lot. And I remember distinctly
when I went to kindergarten, which was I think for
three to four year olds, they had these tropical three wheeler trust
circles everywhere. You turn up there and not
so much the young girls, but all the boys
would erase here around the three wheeler tricycles and was
kinda like this, kinda like a really great time
before kinda would start. You might talk about that or equivalent to
yourself, of course. And then we'd have a
holidays and all BRI with grandmother and she's lived
with a guy called says. And when you talk about
that and we've talked about so my brother Bruce and I ride our bicycles or
around Blackburn and Bruce had this amazing ability to find these great places
to write so you get better, you get
the picture right. So you'd have this
sheet of paper, you'd have 17 to 25
things written on it. And you would just simply talk
about all these things and you would record them
into an audio recorder. And that's how you
would write your book. And then you might
have a second chapter. You might have second
chapter about high school. And so again, you have 25 things written down about high school. What high school is like if
it was an autobiography side, then the third chapter
might have when you, when you started work in some of the challenges you
had around work. So you'd have 25 things
about your first job, the second job or
university or whatever. And then you might
even have about a marriage that you had or relationships you'd had or some painful lessons
have you experienced? But each thing is
kinda like a for each chapter is
basically 7,025 things. And all you're really
doing is just, again, you're recording
them on your phone or on an audio recorder. Then what you're doing is you're getting
those audio recording, you just putting them
on your computers as simply download an
empty computer. So whether you got a
MacBook Air or you got a note in a notebook or
whatever, or Google whatever. You just get those
audio recordings and you put them
on your computer, and then you send
them the people. Now, there are a series
of companies around. We all know who they are.
Things like, you know, kind of a Tosca and Fiverr
and those type of companies. There's a whole bunch
of them that where people hire out their expertise. And so what we wanna do when
we get out audio recordings, what we wanna do is we then
want to get them typed up. Now there are actually computer
programs that can do it. So there are certain
dictation programs. I think Google has won, and obviously Apple and a
whole bunch of other people. So you get that audio recording
and you get it typed up. Now when you get that
audio recording topped up, it's going to have arms and
ours are sort of stuff, but you get that audio
recording typed up. And what you do then
is you give it to someone who is then
going to make, turn that into something
that makes sense. And there's two ways
you can do that. And we're going to talk about
that in the next lesson.
3. Lesson 2 Typing up, editing and formatting: Okay, So welcome to the second lesson of how to write a book really
quickly, the gateway. So basically we have, we've got our ten chapters are our three chapters,
four chapters, there are seven chapters,
and we're basically spoken each chapter
into an audio recorder. Always spoke them into
our mobile phone. And we have basically we have 13 or seven or ten or whatever. We have audio files. What we wanna do with
those audio files is what we want to go on, like a father or a
freelance or an otoscopy, one of those organizations. And we want to search for
someone who can transcribe, somebody can type up
that that document. And also we can, we can, we could look at
initially here for someone who can
actually kind of like Titan only type it up and take
out the arms and ours and actually make sure that the
sentences are complete. Now, what you can
expect to pay at this stage is maybe
you might get a pay like 80 to $100 a chapter
to get this process done. So someone might type it up and kinda clean it up a
little bit for you. And so for $80. So let's say you have
eight chapters soap. So basically in a 700 bucks, you're going to get
in and get that typed up and it's going to make sense. And so you'll have ten
chapters that you spent one day talking
your book, right? Eight times 40 min. Like I said, it's
been a big day, but it's just a normal day. Use your spoken you
broke in one day. You started at 09:00 in
the morning and at 05:00, you've got eight
chapters of your, of your book or speaking
for 40 min at a time. Then what you do
is you give it to someone and you might have to spend $80 a chapter or whatever, but for 800 bucks, you've basically got rough book. I don't know about you
got your rough book. Then what you wanna
do is you wanna give it to a book
ended up somewhere. You can actually
really kinda polish it up and turn it
into something. If you've quoted
people, put those, put those quotes, put those references in on the
quotes and lots of stuff. So you want to give it
to a book, set it up. Now for a book editor that
you might be looking at, at, at around $1,200 to $1,500 depending on
how big your book is, or maybe even
two-and-a-half thousand. But the point is, is that for
three grand say for $3,000, obviously I'm talking
I'm talking in 20 2022. So obviously your
prices go up over time, but for three grand, you have your book. It's it's typed,
you've spoken it. I've a one day you've
got a book editor. You've got a
transcriber to type it up and turn it into basic, some sort of basic document. You've got a book editor, then polish it up and you
have a finished book, and it's taken you
one day to do. Now, obviously
you've had to have other people work work on it. And depending on how fast they work is always
going to stretch it out. But you've done one
day's work and you've got eight chapters of a
book and it's caused. And basically what you've
done is you've, you've, you've really got to forked out money so that other people
can do those parts. Then what you wanna do is you
want to get it formatted, you need to get the
book format it. Okay, So what that
means basically in a way is that for this, for this book to be two, for this book to
be sold on Amazon, it needs to be formatted
so that you've got certain chapters and it's also formatted for the machines
that Amazon uses. So again, on a
freelancer and five are multiple stuff you'll
find people in Afghanistan or wherever
who can format your book. And I do it relatively cheaply. It's like, again, really
literally $290 whatever. And you've got your
finished book now, I did my cover on Canva. So on, on Canvas, a lot
of people heard of Canva. It's just like a web
design software. It's a website that we
can do design everything. So for no cost at all, I did my own book covers basically for one day of
talking my book into existence. And then and then
getting my book typed up with the arms and ours taken out and kinda making
some sort of sense, then giving it to a book editor and then getting it formatted. It's basically three steps. You, I think those
three steps sounds. The first step is the audio, seconds, step is
the transcribing. Third step is a book editor. Fourth steps are in these
four steps is the formatting. So they think of
those four steps. And then basically what
you do is you upload your book to Amazon and
you've got a complete book. This book is taken you
literally one day to do. If it's, if it's eight chapters, you're talking for
40 min at a time, taking it, you've
done it in a day. Now if it's ten chapters
or 12 chapters material, Diana, half, if you want to
do it all in one sitting. And my advice is that is that you do do it all in one sitting. And so obviously you've got to spend a day or a day and a half. And then you've basically paid people incrementally to do
that the following sets, but then you've got your
book, your book is out. I think for a lot of us,
the daunting idea of a book is that we have to sit behind
a type broader and type. And we kinda like we get writer's block and
we get bogged down. Whereas in actual fact, if you're doing an
autobiography side talking about your life or you're
doing a motivational book, we're talking about
what you believe to be true motivation for your
true motivation for others. You can simply read
literally just, you can literally just speak it. And then get other people
to people who are happy, but people who are
happy to do it by the white people in Afghanistan
and other countries, people who are happy to do it. I had a guy in Afghanistan
who did my book formatting. I had a guy in America who
did my book and book editing. Editing. I had another person
who did the road, took the audio from this,
from the spoken word, wrote it up and then,
and then kind of imagined some basic documents. So these people are happy
to do it, but that, but that's the quickest
way to get a book written. The shape and it's
the cheap way. But when we say it's a
cheap way, I mean, I mean, obviously people
like Bill Clinton again wrote a book this thick. I mean, he's not sitting behind and typewriter
for two or three years. We all we all know he's
not or whoever or like, you know, some, some, some big movie star, let's say Woody Allen release
the book where he's not, he's not potentially
not going to sit back because he's a writer, he might but, but,
but potentially he's not going to
sip on a typewriter. He's going to speak,
speak his book, and then get other people
just to fix and tinier. But these people are
happy to do it there. That's the, that's the
talent if you like, or their gift is to do
those incremental parts. So think of four parts. The audio should take a die, die and a half, book
editing the transcribing. Again, that might,
that might take a week for someone over in
Afghanistan to do that. Then you've got
the book editing. The book Getting might
take two or three weeks. And you got the formatting
which might take another week. And then basically your bid is really just a day
or a day and a half. And then you've got a book that you can publish on Amazon. And what a book gives you as
credibility, reliability. It turns you into an expert
and it also tells your story, whatever your story isn't
gives them your angle. That is the best
way, the fastest way to create a
book, the cheap way. And it's all spoken,
spoken and what? A lot of books can be
audio books anyways. And so the whole idea of a spoken book is how people
receive books anyways, so go forward, speak your book. Now. Just go to the last video, but some homework for you to do. And we'll see you
in the last video.
4. TASK: Okay, So there's an old saying, if, if, if you don't
take any action, nothing comes from it
or the old saying that nothing you're nothing changes,
nothing, nothing changes. So I've got some
homework for you to do. What, what I, what I
want you to do is I want you to basically create, do the first step. The first step is to actually get basically a sheet of paper, like a sheet of paper like this. What I want you to
do is I want you to write down 27 things. I'll match you to pipe up. And this is chapter
one of your book. I want you to repeat that
process for you book, okay, so if you've got just, what I want you to do is
get it as a Chapters. Get a piece of paper, write down 72 to 25 things
on each bit of paper. Write it down. You got I, I choose
to buy, provide jobs. And then what I want you to do is I want you to
find some spice. Obviously, you know,
if you're married and your wife Look, I'm just going to I'm going
to need some time on my own or maybe find a quiet corner
and the house somewhere. And I want you to speak each of those chapters into
an audio file. That is the homework
that I want you to do. I want you to speak your book. It's eight different
files. Okay. So each page is one
fall and what do you want to speak for is 20-40 min. Half an hour is a great
length. That's a great. If you speak for half
an hour to 40 min, you're going to end up with
13 or 14 page chapter. That's double pages. Okay. That's the homework for you. I want you to go I
want you to go and get those eight pages and
or if it's 12 chapters, 12 pages, I want to
go speak your book. So it's a different audio files. Then what I want you to do, the second part of this homework is I want you to go on those, those, those websites
where people hire them. They're skills that and
look for a book editor or transcribe someone
who's going to type it up for you or someone's gonna put it
through the program. And I want you to sound
out basically the people, the people you can
get to help turn your audio into a book, okay, but that's the first
bit of the harmonics crucial. I want you to go get your
eight bits of paper. You're 12 bits of
paper, go speak your book into existence. And then I want you to do
some research around, again, who's going to turn this, these audio files
into a finished book. So you need someone who's going to type it
up, the audio up, and take out the arms
and ours and kinda make it make sense that you need a book editor who's
going to polish it. You need. Then you need someone who is
going to format your book. So you need a, someone's
going to format your book for Amazon to. So you want to
format your book for Amazon so you can self-publish. That's the homework. Go forward and do it.
And you know what? I'll look forward to hearing down the track that the book you've always
wanted to write, which you never thought
you had the time to do because you either what
am I going to stick on and talk broader for
months or 12 months or not. This book, that book
you've always wanted to do about your life or about your expectations,
about your workplace, or about what you do
with this though, I'll look forward to
knowing that that book became a book and it
became a book in a day. It became a book in
one day from you, one day from you, and then a few weeks
from other people. And it was published on
Amazon. Look forward to it. Keep me in the loop of how you go and I thank you for
taking this course.
Arwin Kraze
