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Knock, Knock: Is There an Author Living Inside You?
Exploring your inner ingredients — passion, persistence, imagination
Writers who toil away at their craft will often roll their eyes the minute someone says, “I’m pretty sure I could write a book if I really wanted to.”
Yeah? You think so? I could drive an 18-wheeled semi-truck if I really wanted to. Or pilot a space shuttle. Or perform open-heart surgery. Sure. If I really wanted to.
Writing a book (fiction or nonfiction) is harder than it looks. Trust me on that.
But challenges aside, I believe there are legions of subject-matter experts, autodidacts, and people who are passionate practitioners of a specific art or trade who do have a nonfiction book in them. Not everybody, of course, but some people — definitely.
If I didn’t believe this, I wouldn’t have become a certified nonfiction book coach. Now, as a book coach, I’m on a mission not only to guide and encourage aspiring authors who have already published, or are mulling an idea, but also to find individuals who are ready to have a book pulled out of them. They just don’t know it yet.
This may sound far-fetched. There you are, going about your daily business — working in an office, visiting a job site, peering through a…
