Amazon KDP | I'm writing a non-fiction book in less than a month

[wejdene]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this forum, first, where is the post "present yourself" ?

Okay so... I'm 17 now. I’m French so excuse me If I make some mistakes... I learn about investing since about 3 years. This year I decided to change much of my life : physical health (I started to workout SERIOUSLY, I'm doing calisthenics, also nammed "street workout"), mental health with self developpement and no more stupid things doing like watching tiktoks for 2 hours straight, and businesses since money is important in our world ! (and it always was) (and so much other little things which are not really important)

So I watched and realised (all tests) some course about E-commerce, then about digital arts (Blender) and videos making (Premiere Pro), photos retouching (Photoshop)… And now I’m following a course about publishing non-fictionnal books on Amazon KDP. I must mention I make no money with all the things I made, but I spend none too. All what I do are « try » things, I don’t publish them.

And so I decided to take a month to write myself a non-fictionnal book. Actually I have the title of it : « Manage your finances in 28 days » and the under title : « Learn how to earn more, manage your budget and invest your money in less than a month. ».

So my agenda for July is :

1. 1st of July = table of contents
2. 2nd to 12th = writing (about 2000 words a day, the idea is to have a 20k words, and about 110 pages, I learned these are the ideal caracteristics to publish a book on amazon KDP)
3. 13th and 14th = proofreading (nonsense and spelling)
4. 15th = page layout
5. 16th and 17th = cover, spine and back cover design
6. 18th to 19th = finish little details

So I made the table of contents today. Can I have your review and advices ?
Here the link of the document translated in English (I’m writing my book in French) : link google docs

 

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[wejdene]

thanks

 

[c4n]

You make no money but you're writing a book teaching others how to make money?

Have you actually read any of the MJ's books?

 

[MTF]

You make no money but you're writing a book teaching others how to make money?

Welcome to the glorious world of self-publishing. The funny thing is that this guy has higher chances of success than a guy who knows his shit.

 

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[Mikey63]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this forum, first, where is the post "present yourself" ?

Okay so... I'm 17 now. I’m French so excuse me If I make some mistakes... I learn about investing since about 3 years. This year I decided to change much of my life : physical health (I started to workout SERIOUSLY, I'm doing calisthenics, also nammed "street workout"), mental health with self developpement and no more stupid things doing like watching tiktoks for 2 hours straight, and businesses since money is important in our world ! (and it always was) (and so much other little things which are not really important)

So I watched and realised (all tests) some course about E-commerce, then about digital arts (Blender) and videos making (Premiere Pro), photos retouching (Photoshop)… And now I’m following a course about publishing non-fictionnal books on Amazon KDP. I must mention I make no money with all the things I made, but I spend none too. All what I do are « try » things, I don’t publish them.

And so I decided to take a month to write myself a non-fictionnal book. Actually I have the title of it : « Manage your finances in 28 days » and the under title : « Learn how to earn more, manage your budget and invest your money in less than a month. ».

So my agenda for July is :

1. 1st of July = table of contents
2. 2nd to 12th = writing (about 2000 words a day, the idea is to have a 20k words, and about 110 pages, I learned these are the ideal caracteristics to publish a book on amazon KDP)
3. 13th and 14th = proofreading (nonsense and spelling)
4. 15th = page layout
5. 16th and 17th = cover, spine and back cover design
6. 18th to 19th = finish little details

So I made the table of contents today. Can I have your review and advices ?
Here the link of the document translated in English (I’m writing my book in French) : link google docs

All the best with it. That's quite a big project to start with. Have you considered low content books? Not the silly notebooks type things but something like a 90 day journal on the same subject.

 

[wejdene]

Actually, this book is not meant for sell now. I'm waiting for my 18th's birthday, to potentially publish it on Amazon. I rather write it like a test, since it allows me to learn even more and go further in my life. This way I'm creating something and I'm not "chilling" on social medias for example.

You make no money but you're writing a book teaching others how to make money?

Have you actually read any of the MJ's books?

No I Haven't. I think I will in the futur. (the "MJ's book" which are you talking about are the books like "The millionaire Fastlane " and "The great rat-race escape" ?) For the moment I read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" from Robert Kyosaki, and "AGIR" ("act" in english), which is a french book from Thami Kabbaj, and this book is not good (the author is just selling his courses of course but I was too young to understand it when I have bought it).

All the best with it. That's quite a big project to start with. Have you considered low content books? Not the silly notebooks type things but something like a 90 day journal on the same subject.

I think this is better to write a non-fictionnal book like this. The researchs about finances are making me learn even more things about it. Personnaly, I don't buy low-content books, so I don't believe I people will buy one of those.


Currently I'm on the 4th part of the book (4 out of 5 in total), I write about 2k words per day, if you haven't read the file already, I'm planning to write betwenn 20k and 25k words in total.

 

[rodvaN]

Best wishes in this journey, don't forget to report back your advances
Someday I will write a book about something I master.

 

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[Mikey63]

Actually, this book is not meant for sell now. I'm waiting for my 18th's birthday, to potentially publish it on Amazon. I rather write it like a test, since it allows me to learn even more and go further in my life. This way I'm creating something and I'm not "chilling" on social medias for example.

No I Haven't. I think I will in the futur. (the "MJ's book" which are you talking about are the books like "The millionaire Fastlane " and "The great rat-race escape" ?) For the moment I read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" from Robert Kyosaki, and "AGIR" ("act" in english), which is a french book from Thami Kabbaj, and this book is not good (the author is just selling his courses of course but I was too young to understand it when I have bought it).


I think this is better to write a non-fictionnal book like this. The researchs about finances are making me learn even more things about it. Personnaly, I don't buy low-content books, so I don't believe I people will buy one of those.


Currently I'm on the 4th part of the book (4 out of 5 in total), I write about 2k words per day, if you haven't read the file already, I'm planning to write betwenn 20k and 25k words in total.

It will be interesting to follow your progress.

 

[wejdene]

I'm currently at around 16 k word out of 20-25k. It's around 35 pages on 11 font. I must say I'm not doing just that in the day, it takes me about 2 hours a day. I'm planning to finish the writing part on the 12th of July. Then I will proofread to get rid of mistakes. After that I will create the cover, the back and the slice (something new for me, I'm planning to use Photoshop), or I will include in my text the images, graphics and other types of illustration to enrich the book.

After all these things done, I will do the layout and some other stuff.