What's involved in eBook writing?

Time; time to think, to plan and to write. I have recently started to write, not one, but two such books. I believe I need twelve to fifteen thousand words per book, enough to keep a reader interested during a lunch break or similar time period. Why two at one time?

I have found writing articles, ranging between five and eight hundred words fairly easy now. An idea, or news item, maybe even an observation, enough to get the thoughts flowing. I seek first a good title, one that describes my idea, and from there my brain takes over. If called to lunch, the phone or I'm interrupted, I can leave the article where it is, even if in mid-sentence. The title and a quick read is enough to start where I had left off.

However, eBook writing, totally different, you need a good title, one that will attract attention of a potential buyer, then a start, something that immediately grabs the reader. A middle, the body of the book, the meat of the meal, the real reason the person buys the book, and then the end, bringing closure to the body of the book, either in such a way as to attract a reader to a follow-up book, or to close the eBook knowing that the subject has reached a conclusion.

Time to think!

You have to make time to think about your construction of the book, the points you wish to make. Make notes about the subject, research your facts, think about what has attracted you to it, a lack of passion for the subject will result in a failure. Be correct in the ideas and statements your to make, people unsure will do further research and credibility lost if yours don't stand up to inspection. So think before you write the author's name is yours.

Time to plan!

This is the make or break time of your eBook. The notes you've made now need sorting, what goes where? The structure of your start, middle and end, need final planning. This is the time to inspect your subject and notes and to plan the book in your mind. How to lead the reader, to encompass them in the body and how to let them down at the end. Planning the most important, if there is too little content at planning, the result a too short book, no amount of filling will help when you discover you're two thousand words short. An article that is ten percent short, needs but forty words, an eBook equivalent will need fifteen hundred words. To amble through fifteen hundred words written as fillers, will make sure you lose the reader as well as future sales.

Time to write!

Getting started, the first line, the hook baited with the worm, the punch line attractor, what to write? If this question your beginning, then rather start in the middle or the end, and return to the beginning. The other areas may help develop the start, the core flows with ease, in a direction you intended, whilst writing, the beginning may develop in a different way to how you planned. There is no rule saying you must begin with the first word, first line or chapter. Many writers, when asked how they write their books, will tell you they have written the body text as well as the end before the lead in, or start, develops.

Making time to write requires a discipline more definitive than articles, once begun you cannot stop, and return, articles need thinking ahead, but only for the following few sentences. Book writing needs you to think a few chapters ahead, the flow of the story depends on this, constant stop and start can, and likely will, destroy a good story.

Is it for you? Is it for me? I'm not sure, but to answer the question, why two at one time? I find that I can easily lose concentration, and writers block sets in. Take a walk they say, clear your head, relax and think of something else. Easily recommended, not easy to follow, what I find is that I can keep my mind concentrating so much easier if I jump from one to the other. Sounds like double Dutch, but it works for me.