In this 5-part audio series, Rintu Basu, author of The Persuasion Skills Black Book and Romilla Ready, co-author of Neurolinguistic Programming for Dummies discuss the whole process from coming up with best selling book ideas, writing your book, getting it published and selling loads of copies.

Have you ever had the situation where you are overwhelmed with the amount of work that you need to do? Perhaps you have a horde of research to get through or maybe you have so much writing that you don’t know where to begin. Using a few quick hypnotic persuasion tactics can change this and dramatically increase your motivation so you get things done instead feeling overwhelmed and procrastinating.

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In this 5-part audio series, Rintu Basu, author of The Persuasion Skills Black Book and Romilla Ready, co-author of Neurolinguistic Programming for Dummies discuss the whole process from coming up with best selling book ideas, writing your book, getting it published and selling loads of copies.

In this 5-part video series, Rintu Basu, author of The Persuasion Skills Black Book introduces and illustrates 3 powerful creativity tools (Mind Mapping, 4MAT and Perceptual Positions) for generating and creating new content quickly and easily. Once you have discovered these approaches you’ll be able to devise and write books with ease, quickly come up with and produce high value information products in audio and video format, and also rapidly generate hundred of articles to help promote your book and yourself as an author.

This article is a round up of some quick ways of getting your book written down. Before you get to this stage you should have a detailed contents page that includes all the subsections of each chapter and the key points for each subsection. All of this should be in the order of the book. If you don’t know how to get to this stage there3 are several articles, videos and audios on this site that will give you detailed instructions to get to this point.

So you have your whole book in note form either as mind maps or on as notes on address cards. Now the task is to write the words in between that will mean it makes sense to the reader. Here are three ways alternatives to choose from.

Type it Yourself

This might be quicker, simpler and easier than you think. Remember all the hard work has already been done. Once you have your contents ordered and sequenced with all the key points down all you need do it type. Here are some key tips to getting this done well.

The most important thing is to type only for short lengths of time (I use five minute chunks) and type as fast as you can. Doing it this way you can’t edit as you go, you have no room for self doubt and you write more naturally.

I usually do about four or five chunks of five minutes an hour and this equates to about 1000 words. I can keep this up all day and really enjoy it. If you do the maths you might notice I can have 40 000 done in less than a fortnight. I think with a little practice that this is achievable for most people and some will be considerably faster.

The benefit of this system is that you get lots done quickly but there is much more benefit. I have found with myself and several others that the faster you write the more natural the words are and the easier it is to read. I have found doing things this way you might need more proof reading for spelling but you need less editing.

Voice Recognition Software

There are lots of great voice recognition programmes out there. I personally use Dragon and absolutely love it. Even after only 20 minutes of training it to recognise my voice it was immensely accurate and has got even better since.

I have found if I am writing short pieces, less than about two or three thousand words I am better off just typing it. Anything more than that this piece of software comes into its own. I have written upwards of 10 000 words in a day using Dragon. Think about this, those 40 000 words will take you less than a week using this approach.

Again there is nothing new to add here, the hard work was done creating your notes, now all you have to do is speak it into the software and it automatically writes it down for you.

Using Someone Else

I am not necessarily talking about an audio typist although this is a valid approach. I believe Barbara Cartland, who is in the Guinness Book of Records for writing the most number of novels in a year used this type of approach. Barbara, used three stenographers in twenty minute shifts, she would dictate to one for twenty minutes, they would go off to type up their notes as she started dictating to the second and then the third. By the time Barbara had finished with the third the first would be back and they could do any edits and revisions before starting the process again.

You might consider recording yourself reading your notes and give it to someone to write up. You might just hand your notes over to a ghost writer with some additional comments on tape and let them get on with it. In any case most books are far less than six hours long if spoken. Even if it takes you twice as long to record it your book is complete in less than two days.

Remember the issue is not writing your book but having a great idea and being able to sequence it into something that is meaningful for the reader. If you can do that bit then writing it down is the easy bit. In the third and final part of this series we will look at how you can cash in on your book.

Books and publishing are very competitive environments. Learning a few hypnotic language patterns will help you to deal more effectively with a variety of objections, and help boost your career as an author. These patterns are not necessarily about sending people into a hypnotic trance but just a way to move your prospect from the objection to a benefit statement. Let us look at a typical pattern in the context of getting a book deal and how you can quickly start using it to deal with objections from a potential publisher.

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