Millions of people out there on the World Wide Web have fantastic stories, years of experience and masses of expertise that they could profitably share with the rest of us. There are affiliate marketers out there who are scraping by selling other people’s products because they can’t quite manage to develop their own. And there are would-be authors, and potential experts who are struggling with that most difficult of Online Business problems… Sitting down and writing their best-selling Ebook!

This simple technique will get you started on your Ebook. And as an added bonus will give you 26 articles to start the traffic drive to your website.

Make an A-Z list of words associated with your targeted niche or with the subject of your Ebook. If you get stuck you can use Google’s keyword tools to help you with suggestions. Once you have one or more words under each of the letters of the alphabet, (and you may need a creative sense of humour when it comes to the letters x,y, and z,) you take a fresh piece of paper and a pen and let your thoughts on each word spill out onto the paper. And here’s the trick – Write with your eyes closed! I know it sounds weird, but it actually works!

Yes, you’ll write plenty of nonsense, and some of it you won’t be able to read, but it’ll give you a starting point. Somehow, writing with your eyes closed lowers the inhibitions you feel about putting your thoughts down on paper. And when you’re starting out just getting those first words written is the biggest hurdle to overcome. Once you’ve got some ideas down you can start work… but without those first wild ideas there’s no hope of a finished E-Book.

All you have to do is to turn the words into a 500 word article. Sound difficult? Take it slow! Take one of your A-Z words at a time and develop the themes that emerged from your eyes-closed flow-writing. Write as if you were talking to a friend sitting next to you, and if you get stuck just close your eyes and keep writing! Write rubbish, write nonsense, but keep writing!

A common reasons people give for not wanting to write is that they’re afraid their writing won’t be good enough Or that they haven’t written anything before, or they don’t know where to start. The truth is that writing, like most things worth doing, is something you have to practise at and improve upon if you want to get better. It’s also worth remembering that there are no perfect writers. There are good writers and bad writers and bad writers get to be good writers by practising!

Don’t be afraid! Get out that pen and paper and throw caution to the winds. Nobody will see what you write, unless you show it to them, and you don’t have to show it to them until you want to!

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