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How to write a book different from your competitors

If you’ve done any of the research I suggested in the past three weeks, then you should now have a fair idea of your market and what’s already in it.

If it seems to you that the ground has been covered well already, then this is the point at which you have to apply some native cunning.

One of my clients this year wrote a book which combined two areas that have been written about extensively, but not previously in the same book.

Think about your topic.  What is your experience in the field?

Are you an expert?

Are you writing for other experts or to people outside your field who might want an easy introduction?

Are you just interested in the topic but wanting to interest other people at your own level?

Do you have experience that contradicts the expert theories?

Somewhere in what you’ve done, or how you’ve become interested in the subject, there’s an approach that might not have been tried before.

You may have been contributing articles from which you can make a book.  You may have a diary about an event – such as preparing for a marathon – that would interest both other runners or non-runners.

The wider you think about this the more easily you’ll find your approach.

Again – ask around – not just your family and friends, but spread your net wider.

And as ever – keep your focus and you’ll get there.