hello everyone this is Vlad here I'm just gonna do a very short video of
sharing with you about book writing a lot of people ask me about how to write
a book so some of you know I wrote two books and I'm finishing a third one
right now I self-published about self-publishing I'm gonna put a links
below of how to self publish and I might do a few videos and just giving you a
demonstration of that this is not for everyone this video is only for people
who have a dream or a desire from God to write a book I wrote also a blog about
five reasons why I wrote the book maybe those could be your reasons and then I
wrote a step-by-step of how I went about it now my way might not be your way but
there are a few things you can learn from me as I've learned probably from
other people but a few things I want to share when I did my when I felt the call
of the Lord to write a book what I did is I did some research on how to go
about that and this is what I came about and this is what I practiced one is they
recommend if you have a desire or a dream to write a book what you need to
start with is cleaning up your platform cleaning up your platform meaning you
need to make sure that all of your social media accounts like Twitter
Instagram and Facebook are up to date make sure that you are posting on them
so that you're getting people right now certain things to feed them
spiritually because that is a free platform it doesn't take a lot to do
that you can post something very small each day and encourage people with it
that's number one and so what I did is I went on all of my social media platforms
and I was making sure that I have the same username on Facebook same username
on Instagram the same username on Twitter in fact I didn't have a Twitter
so I had to start a Twitter why because if I want to publish a book that has
50,000 words I need to start publishing short little sentences every day to
Twitter where a lot of authors are at to inspire people to encourage people in
other words you can't try to go run a mile if you don't first walk and so
that's the first thing that I did the second thing they encouraged is instead
of writing a book to first start writing short 400 to 600 word blogs you can get
a free blog page or if you have a ministry and maybe there's a possibility
to post it straight and your ministry page so that it could give exposure to
your ministry more instead of trying to start three different websites or two
different websites that you cannot maintain there is a secret behind doing
a blog before you're doing a book this is why one is when you have a blog it
helps you to be disciplined every single day or every single week by posting
short bites instead of trying to conquer a whole book secondly it gives you an
opportunity to see how people respond to that content thirdly it helps you to
develop discipline to write regularly I cannot tell you how many people I know
who start writing books and they stopped and chapter two to three years later and
they cannot pass the chapter two and every one of those people have one thing
in common none of them write blogs and so what they want to do is they want to
write a big book but they don't want to write short little blogs every single
week and the reason they don't write blogs is number one they don't have time
number two is like well I'm not a blogger well you're also not an author
and so you have to you have to overcome that little obstacle before I released
break free book I wrote about probably 40 to 50 blogs short little things about
deliverance short little things about curses short little things about
generational curses and everything and then in fact another reason I believe in
writing blogs is I took some of the content from blogs and put it into the
book and so just want to encourage you if you have a vision this is not for
everyone but if this if you have a dream to write a book please
follow some of these practical advices do you have a Twitter there Facebook
do you have Instagram do you post regularly not just about your family
your cats and your dogs but things that actually add value to
people number two is do you write short little thoughts into like 300 400 500
words regularly that one day your book will be about are you doing that if
you're not doing that begin to do that today forget about writing a book start
writing a blog once a week for 12 months if you can keep up with that you'll be
ready to write a book because you'll develop a habit and a discipline and
enough content to be able to eventually put it into a book and so these are just
like my little encouragement for those of you who are writing a book and if you
are doing a blog and if you are active on social media you know what consider
writing about consider putting some of your thoughts and adding some more value
into them and self-publishing through Amazon if your goal is not to make money
which shouldn't be a goal to write a book it should be to make a difference
and to make the Word of God go further than you possibly can you can make it
available for free and Kindle I can make it available for free on your website on
your blog page so that other people can get exposed to it so um how do you I am
in the midst of writing a book thank you God bless you Benjamin
and good luck to you don't give up be consistent my rule is this 400 words a
day so like I just finished writing right now and I wrote about 2,000 words
instead of 400 but usually it's 400 words Monday through Friday and Saturday
and Sunday I take time off and choose if you're writing a book choose 400 words a
day number two choose the best time when you are most alert mentally so I used to
do it after work but I was so tired after work so what I do now is I do it
after prayer so I go early to prayer and then I finished my devotional my time
with the Lord and then I come and I write my mind is fresh nobody's
typically bothering me because everybody's still trying to either wake
up or they're busy with their own things it's before work hours and and then
sometimes I go and exercise for a little bit before I go to work
what are exercise first and then I come to write but choose your time when
you're most alert and honestly stick with it if you don't feel like writing
anything turn on some good music Christian music spiritual
music and just type even if you're not gonna use anything if you're gonna
remove that next day because it's completely useless just type just right
the Bible says open your mouth wide and I will fill it in other words start
typing and stuff will start coming out and stop being so perfection it's like
some people go back and reread their stuff and rewrite their stuff and the
police understand if your platform is small your eloquence is not gonna matter
okay number two if God gives you His grace
your professionalism and professionalism it's not what touches people's lives
what we'll touch is your heart what we'll touch is the anointing and your
way with your words which if you don't have your way with words you can have an
editor who can help you to clean it up so it could sound a little bit more
readable but I believe that editors are not supposed to make it sound like
something like you're not like I want people people who read my stuff they
understand one thing Vlad wrote it an editor helps to give more of my voice
but they don't change the content and they don't change even the language that
I use they like the editor that I have she's phenomenal because she's been
with us for a very long time in their ministry she's on our pastoral team and
she knows my language and so she when she added said she wants make sure that
it's readable there's a flow to it but make sure that my language my voice is
not lost in editing because some editors will make you sound so good
that it's not actually you like some books my friends send it to me and it's
just not them I don't hear them because the editor made made them sound
something that they're not and so I don't like those editors I believe that
you have to write in such a way that people can hear you
people are getting that book to read you or to read that particular topic so yeah
so this is just a wondering if you have any good advice now to speak in church
so I will do another video on how to preach in church but for now I just
wanted to focus on writing a book so I'm gonna drop the links of how to self
publish of five reasons where I wrote the book and and yeah if you have any
questions just comment below I'm gonna try to answer those comments today or
tomorrow hope you have a good day I'm gonna
do these videos more often I'm just kind of some practical things they're not
going to relate to every person they're gonna relate to a particular group of
people how do you start off with writing 400 words so Trisha what I typically
that is this in my mind first I have an idea for the book secondly I have a
title that I work on for a few months then I develop like a flow so I main
chapters is this is gonna be a particular story that I'm gonna break it
down from the Bible or is this a particular topic that I break down and
the things that are most important to me so like break free book for example I
had an idea it's hard to be free and how to how to get free and how to stay free
and then what I did is I said I want to take a few chapters and talk about
the reality of spiritual world and I want to talk about the open doors to the
demonic and I don't want to talk about how to get free and then I wanted to
talk about how to stay free and so all of those chapters pretty much helped me
to break that those kind of main ideas with a single ready to mingle
I did it something different I took the story of Adam and Eve and I took it from
the beginning till the end and I broke it to seven chapters and how Adam and
Eve you supposed to have God and then how you supposed to know your identity
and how you supposed to have a career and then how don't eight monkeys and
then how to find the right person and then how to I think one more chapter and
then how to have marriage so I took one story from the Bible Adam and Eve and I
broke it to seven chapters the book on the Holy Spirit that I'm doing is
slightly different it's pretty much taking how to host the Holy Spirit and
so it's taking different ideas about the Holy Spirit but coming to the same big
idea which is how to live with the Holy Spirit every single day and so I take
different stories from the Bible in the first chapter I took one story from the
Bible the second chapter I took another story so each chapter is a different
story and so it will be it will depend on how you're writing and how you will
be failing lead and so and then I just try to fill that chapter with thoughts
personal examples scriptures and just different things that I
feel that the Lord wants me to share in that it's easier for me to write because
I have already a lot of content that I preached from and secondly I have a lot
of blogs that I've released and some of that I reuse in the book and so your
books are an Apple store your books an Apple store a few yeah there's an half
of my Apple books in the Apple store I've removed because I can I chose
to do Kindle make Kindle make my book for free available to others and because
of that I had to remove it from Apple store and so I can drop the link of my
books as well so ok guys if you have any questions just comment below and I'm
gonna try to answer it today or tomorrow have a wonderful day