Write and Print Your Own Book

The type of book or booklet I am talking about is usually between 15-30 pages long. It is pretty simple to write and edit and do your own artwork, and then put it all together with a cover.

All you need is a computer, printer, printer paper, card stock and a story or poetry, or whatever it is you want your book to say to others.

I have put together three of these types of books and have four actual written books.

Maybe you already have your material ready to go and all you have to do is put it all together, if so, then you can skip the manuscript writing part and go to the following part. However, you may still want to read the manuscript details, to see if there is anything you may have missed for your own book.

To put together your manuscript from an idea that you have on writing your book, you must first do a general mapping of the manuscript.

To do this, you must jot your idea down on a piece of paper and then brainstorm about your idea.

Let's say you want to write a 20 page book about coin collecting. Then you would write coin collecting on the paper and then from there, you would start brainstorming any and everything you already know about coin collecting.

Now, maybe there is a lot of resources that you have gathered that you will use to develop this book. If so, make sure you give proper credit to these sources otherwise, you will be in trouble for copyright infringement.

Now it's time to organize your book. The Title and the Title page can be done at any time. Sometimes I do it right away and sometimes I wait till last. Remember this, the title page is what everyone sees first and it is one of the most key elements to attract someone to your book.

The next thing is to organize your book according to chapters. Chapter one may be titled "A Brief History of Coin Collecting". Chapter two might be titled, What Types of Coins To Collect". This gives you an idea of the way the book should flow. It also helps when you are writing, because you can just pull up that chapter title and then write directly about that title.