Every Idea Has a Start

I've never written a book before. I've written a lot, however.

From my days in school writing 1000s of words each week to composing content for multiple blogs and writing content for many Web sites, I have written a lot.

The challenge was writing for the scope of a book... something that has a clear vision in my mind but nothing really to model it after. Writing a blog post is very different than writing a book. In fact, even writing a series of blog posts that are very related is still very different than writing a book.

I have a very distinct vision of what this book should be.

My working title is, "The CEO's Survival Guide to Online Marketing."

I want this book to speak to the CEO. I want others to be able to read it and gain a lot of insight as to how to market themselves online but the primary audience is the CEO.

At first, I thought that I would be able to take a number of posts from the past and just peice them together and with minor edits, I'd have a brilliant book.

Too bad... doesn't work that way.

I had to start with my simple idea and make a simple manuscript. The photo in this post represents part of my outline... part of the organization of my thoughts to getting get the words out of my brain and onto the paper.

We'll see where it goes from here. I have high hopes for myself and what I can do with this book.