Take Baby Steps in Your Writing to Yield a Book

BY SHERY MA BELLE ARRIETA-RUSS

The thought of writing a book is usually daunting for many writers. After all, how and where do you begin writing a book that's anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000 words?

Big numbers can be pretty intimidating. But there's a way to get around this. And it's by taking baby steps — writing one chapter or even 300-500 words at a time.

This is how I wrote my book, Weekly Writes: 52 Weeks of Writing Bliss. Every week for one whole year, I wrote one chapter or module. Each module was only 250 to 500 words. It helped too that as I wrote each module, writers were "testing" it. They did the activities in the module I sent out to them every week.

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