- Would you like to write at a breakneck pace?
And when I mean breakneck pace, we're looking
at doing a thousand words.
Now some people are gonna go,
"Well, a thousand words, how long?
"Is it gonna be a week?
"Is it gonna be a day?"
No, we're gonna top that.
We're gonna show you how to write a thousand words
in 40 minutes or less.
Stay tuned.
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Oh, boy, I am super excited today.
I not only get to meet someone I've been following
for so stinking long, but he's gonna be dropping
some serious 411.
Chandler Bolt, man, I don't, do I need
to give an introduction at all?
- Sure, sure.
- This is the guy right now
that I started my whole self-publishing career
actually learning from a lot of your free content.
So how crazy is it that you are gonna be passing
some free content on to everybody right here today?
So I've got a question, how do you write a thousand words
in less that 40 minutes?
- Sounds crazy, right?
Well here's how you do it.
So, I'm a C-level English student
and a college drop-out, and I feel like one
of my skill sets is to make complicated things simple.
So my goal is to make this process very, very simple.
And it's about gettin' that first thousand words,
because that first thousand words says,
"Hey, I can maybe get this full draft done.
"Or maybe I can get my first chapter."
My first chapter says I can maybe get five chapters.
Then that says maybe I can get an actual draft done.
And what we've seen time and time again
with our students, and with anyone
that we work with, or anyone that I teach this stuff is,
when you get the rough draft done,
the light bulb turns on.
You start to see the light at the end
of the tunnel, and you start to believe
that this is possible.
So that's what we're tryna do.
And we wanna create that possibility
through the first thousand words.
Now there's a couple things that you're gonna do.
Now this is what we call the mind map,
outline, write process.
So very first step, spoiler alert (laughing),
you're gonna create a mind map.
So it's gonna look somethin' like this.
And we've got downloadable versions of this,
or you can just take a blank sheet of printer paper,
and you're gonna write your book idea
in the middle of the page.
So you write your book idea in the middle
of the page.
Then I want you to kinda mind map everything
that you can think of on that idea.
So you wanna get all the ideas
that you can think of onto the paper.
And then what you're gonna do,
once you get the mind map done,
is you're gonna take that mind map
and start to turn it into an outline.
So that's step number two.
So you start to kinda group ideas,
common ideas into themes or into sections.
And so usually what we'll say is about five sections
or five groups of ideas.
So you've got these groups of ideas.
Then you're gonna order those in the order
that you wanna cover them in the book.
So now you got five sections in the order
that you wanna cover them in the book,
and then you'll drill down.
We'll call it about three chapters per section.
So you're gonna actually,
you're gonna do this process.
You've got three chapters per sections,
five sections in the order that you wanna cover them.
And that's a 15-chapter outline for your book as a whole.
So now we've done some time outlining,
and this is where you go zero to a thousand
words in 40 minutes.
Okay, so once you've got the outline done
for your overall chapter, or, sorry,
for your overall book, then what you're gonna do is
you're gonna repeat the process
that I kinda just taught you on a macro level,
on a micro level.
So you'll start with chapter number one,
and you're gonna spend 10 minutes mind mapping everything
that you can think of on this chapter,
10 minutes turning that mind map into
an outline for the chapter,
and then you'll spend 30 minutes
to an hour actually writing the chapter.
And so your chapter will probably be more
than a thousand words, but you can get past
that first thousand words and then write the full chapter.
Now this is where it gets kinda fun.
- Okay.
- This is where we do kinda,
it kinda becomes a choose your own adventure.
- All right.
- So you can do the process that I just told you about,
or some of you maybe speak better than you write.
So if you speak better than you write,
this is where it gets fun and becomes,
like I said, choose your own adventure.
So, instead of writing - Okay.
- for 30 to 60 minutes, writing the chapter,
you can actually speak the chapter.
Now this may or may not be new information for you.
Some of you are like, "Oh my gosh.
"I didn't even think about that.
"I can speak the chapter and get it transcribed."
- [Dale] Yep.
- Others of you are, "I've heard that.
"It didn't work." (laughing)
And so what I find is a lotta people,
they'll take their phone, or they'll take whatever,
and they'll try to record,
but they'll just press record, and then 30,
40, 50 minutes later, they're like,
"I don't know where I'm at or how I got here,
"but this is definitely not cohesive thought
"at this point."
- Yeah. - And that's because
they skip the first two steps.
So they skip the mind map, and they skip the outline.
But if you do those things,
and I know, I remember bein' in school
and my teacher said, "You should do a mind map."
And I said, "That sounds stupid.
"I could just be writing." (laughing)
That's like 10 minutes I could spend writing,
so there's this huge temptation to not do that.
But I promise, if you do the mind map,
and then the outline, then step three,
instead of write, becomes speak.
So now you can take 10 minutes,
and you can speak the chapter.
Now the average person speaks 150 words a minute,
unless you're like me and speak,
I don't even know how much higher than that.
(laughing)
But it's fast.
And so you do some simple multiplication,
and 10 minutes, that's 1500 words.
So you can pretty quickly get to a thousand words
by doin' the mind map, doing the outline,
and then doing the writing,
or in this case the speaking.
- This is insane, too, and I know,
as myself, I'm a good talker.
So of course I'm gonna blaze past that,
but if you're a typist, this definitely can suit you.
And so it's essentially coming down
to organizing your thoughts before
you even go into things.
Am I correct saying that?
- 100%, I 100% agree.
And so organize your thoughts,
and then get started.
So it's important that you do the mind map,
and then you turn the mind map into an outline.
And we were just talkin' about this.
We've got a little book outline generator
that can help with that,
so you can just fill, like,
you can just press a couple buttons,
and it spits out literally an outline
that you can work from inside there.
Because what I've found is like,
you end up over complicating it, right?
You open up the blank Word doc,
and this is where most of us stop.
- Yeah. - Because you just wanna beat
your head into the keyboard.
You see the blank page and the blinking cursor,
and you just hope that divine intervention strikes
and somehow words flow through your keyboard.
But if that's the first thing that you're doin',
that's gonna be really intimidating, right?
So you wanna have stuff on an actual page,
so on a mind map, and then turn it into
an outline, and that's when
we have the fill-in-the-blank outline template as well,
is 'cause you can just literally type in there,
but don't skip the mind map.
I do this with speeches that I have to give.
So this whole process, it works for creating a talk.
It works for creating a book.
It works for creating video,
mind mapping out what I'm gonna cover
in the video.
The process works, and especially for structuring
any kind of delivery of information.
- [Dale] Yeah, man, that's dead simple.
Ken, where can I get the outline?
'cause I saw the outline generator.
Where can I get it?
- Yes, so we'll drop a link in with this.
It'll be to the book outline generator.
So definitely subscribe to the channel
if you're not already, and check
out the book outline generator.
So we're literally launching it,
is we'll be right before this video launches,
which is pretty exciting,
so you guys will be some of the first people
to see it and some of the first people to use it.
So we wanted to hook up your people.
And it's really, really cool.
And I would love your feedback on how to make
it better as well.
This is, like, this is v one,
and we're gonna continue iterating
and making this better.
But it's pretty frickin' cool,
'cause it literally has, this is like the nerdy stuff
that I get excited about,
but I'm like, - Yeah.
- it's got the acknowledgements page,
the table of contents.
It's like all these things that people,
the copyright page, like all these things
that people either forget to do,
or forget to put in there, - Yep.
- or in our case, it's like, for our students.
It's like, you're working from
other templates, or people are like searching online,
"How do I do a copyrighting page?"
It's like, we tried to save people
as much time as possible,
so we've got like all those things embedded in there,
and it's pretty cool.
- So not only are you able to go through.
You outlined it.
You wrote it.
You already have it formatted, so listen, folks,
this was really good information.
- All right, while you're here,
check this out.
Right below this, click the link.
This is gonna go to a playlist.
This is a how to write a book playlist.
The very first video in that playlist is 21 Steps
To Get Your Full, First Rough Draft Done.
So that's gonna build on exactly what
I just talked to you about to get the rough draft finished.
Click the playlist, and I'll see ya in the first video.