Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Planning Your Book Project
One Lean Publishing-inspired approach would be to plan to write and publish one chapter per month.
Writing a book is a big project, and every author approaches it differently.
One Lean Publishing-inspired approach would be to plan to write and publish one chapter per month.
Typically, you’d make an outline of, say, ten chapters.
Each month, you could then focus on one chapter at a time, aiming to publish a new version of your book, with the new chapter added, on the first of each month.
That way, you can stay focused, you can telegraph your plan to your readers, and show early buyers of your book steady progress, while abiding by a self-imposed deadline structure.
Why Impose Deadlines on Myself? Self-Publishing is Supposed to Be Whatever I Want, Right?
Of course, setting yourself a chapter-per-month deadline is totally optional!
It’s absolutely true that freedom is one of the great advantages of self-publishing.
But some kind of self-imposed structure is actually great for motivation and, well, finishing your book.
With the Lean Publishing approach, you’ll look forward to meeting your deadline, because it doesn’t just mean finishing each chapter on its own; it also means you get to publish a new version of the book, and let the whole world know, delighting your existing readers.
Remember, every new version of your book that you publish when you add a new chapter is a little book launch!
