Find a book idea worth writing

Use this guide when you know you want to write a book but cannot decide what about, or have too many half-ideas. Have a notebook or document ready and set aside a few short sessions across a week rather than one long one.

Step by step

1. Mine what you already know

   Write down every subject people ask you about, every skill from your job or hobbies and every problem you have solved the hard way. Next to each, write who would want to learn it, for example "self-employed gardeners who hate paperwork". A practical non-fiction book that solves a specific problem for a specific reader is often the most achievable first book.