Blog Your Book

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The dripping method is problematic because it requires such a long time without much interaction from others built in.  A slight modification of this would be the “Blog Your Book” method of book construction.

Here you split up your book into pieces and you simply post these pieces to a blog.  As you build up an audience more and more people will read and comment on your material.  This will help you to refine it.

Because others are reading the material, it will give you an added incentive to continue posting.  Another great benefit of this method is that when the book is completed you will have an audience who might be ready to purchase the book.

So you blog daily about your book and then you edit the pieces together into a book.  You can then send the book to your list or post it to your blog so that people can comment on the whole thing.  There is some disagreement about whether such a practice should be followed, but in any case, you will have people to help you write your book.