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Turn Your Journal Into A Book
Welcome and getting started
Introduction turn your journal into a book (2:20)
Connect With Dale
How to get the most out of this course
What's my book exercise - first steps to discovering your book (2:10)
Your book visualisation
Getting Prepared
Getting prepared (3:50)
Get a journal for the journey (2:15)
Your Book Plan (3:34)
Trello (2:15)
Ideas
Brainstorming Ideas (8:13)
Journal To Book Ideas (9:47)
Journals in times of uncertainty (5:07)
Themes (6:18)
Researching (5:50)
Book Titles (8:52)
Your Personal Story
What Is Your Story (7:24)
Telling The Truth (5:25)
Discover Your Story (5:39)
Your Ideal Reader And Their Journey
My ideal reader (12:13)
What Questions Is Your Reader Asking? (5:34)
Researching (5:50)
Market Research On Amazon - Demo (1:13)
Map the customer journey (4:56)
Review
Outlining your book
Introduction To Outlining (2:26)
The Outlining Process (9:35)
Visualisation to find your book's outline (15:32)
DEMO: Step it out exercise to intuitively discover your outline and content (1:39)
DEMO: Mind mapping your outline (1:30)
DEMO: The outline in WORD (3:09)
Making sense of your outline - the rough synopsis (4:09)
Review
Chapter Frameworks
Chapter frameworks (10:04)
Creating a detailed outline - chapter subheadings (7:10)
Chapter headings and subheadings in your synopsis (3:30)
Knowledge audit - assessing the gaps (5:17)
DEMO: The Knowledge Audit (7:55)
First chapter trial write (4:53)
Actions and checklists - your chapter framework
Write to first draft
Get writing - before you start (3:46)
DEMO: Formatting your WORD document before you start to write (10:53)
Get writing (6:19)
Getting to first draft (4:01)
Different ways to get to first draft (18:14)
Is this the right book (7:17)
Other things to think about (5:04)
Editing
Editing (9:52)
The Editing Process (7:47)
Editing - Making sense of your work (12:03)
Creating rapport with your reader (12:05)
Words, Spelling And Grammar (7:23)
DEMO: Read aloud (2:22)
Grammarly - quick demo (3:32)
Editing - Check your formatting (4:12)
Help I've got into a mess (7:02)
Finishing Touches - Margins, page numbers and table of contents
DEMO: Interior margins and book size (2:51)
DEMO: Page numbers (4:37)
DEMO: Table of contents (5:19)
DEMO: Word - your final checks (7:47)
Woo hoo you are ready to publish (2:58)
Working with your proof reader, beta readers and editor
The Style Guide (1:47)
Working with your proof reader, beta readers and editor (6:38)
Book titles, cover and back blurb
Creating titles and subtitles (13:26)
The back blurb (7:37)
Design your book cover (11:36)
Cover design spec (2:38)
Create a Kindle Direct Publishing account
Create a Kindle Direct Publishing account (0:54)
Upload to Kindle Direct Publishing (6:07)
Ordering books (5:41)
Congratulations and what next
Congratulations and what next
Woo hoo you are ready to publish
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