Struggling to Write Your Health & Wellness Book? There's a Better Way.

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🧘You’re a health and wellness expert who wants to write a great how-to/self-help nonfiction book. You might be a yoga teacher, an herbalist, a psychologist, a health practitioner or doctor or another type of health and wellness expert. You want to share what you know with a wider audience, establish yourself as a thought leader, make an impact and grow your brand. 

📉 But without the right guidance, direction or a plan, you're finding it difficult to get started, easy to get stuck and writing and revising endlessly without making any real progress.

Maybe you’ve tried: 

·         💻Workshops. Online group workshops can be helpful but if you don’t have enough 1:1 time with the instructor it’s very difficult to get a full and accurate vision of where your book currently is and what exactly you need to do to fix and finish it. Once the online or in-person sessions end, there might be follow up but often you’re left on your own again.

·         🎤Conferences. Good for listening to a wide variety of opinions. Some do offer workshops that provide participants with 1:1 feedback, but often it’s not a deep enough dive which is what you need to fix most problems with most books. You’re still on your own.

·         ✈️Retreats. Great because you’re getting away and going to Greece, Portugal or France -- the food, the culture, the views! But seven days with an instructor may not always provide what you need. This is especially true if it’s a general writing retreat, not a writing and revising your nonfiction health and wellness book retreat. Once you get home you’re on your own again.

·         👯Critique Groups. If the feedback is good, you’re elated, if it’s dismal, you’re depressed. Most critique groups are made up of amateur writers, not professionals which means you’re basically left with someone’s opinion. That opinion may be wrong. So, you’re not only off track, you’re back on your own again. 

·         ✂️DIY learning. This means trying to piece together a plan from websites and books. This can be done but it’s time consuming. The plan you cobble together also may not get you where you want to be – having completed a book that works from start to finish. You’re still on your own with this one. 

Why Waste Time, Money & Energy?

All of these choices can leave you still struggling. This wastes time, money and energy and can easily turn your enthusiasm for your health and wellness book into stress, confusion, frustration and overwhelm.

Who needs that?

This may explain why according to one stat that only 3 percent of people who start writing a book, finish it. And if you can't finish it you can share it with the world. 

1:1 Power with a Book or Writing Coach 

There’s power in a 1:1 interaction which is what book coaching offers. 1:1 means you get individualized editorial attention that’s tailored to your specific needs. Some of the options I’ve mentioned may offer aspects of this. But it’s only with 1:1 book coaching that when you spend money, you’re guaranteed to get an editorial professional’s full attention month after month after month for as long as you need it. 

🧮 With a book or writing coach you can also get help at every stage of writing a book from laying the foundation with your idea, method, plan or approach and structure or Table of Contents, (for example, this is what my Quick Start 3-Step Plan provides) to crafting your book proposal to pitching your book (and hopefully selling it!) to writing and revising it. 

👥 Working with a good book coach over the long haul gives you accountability, consistency, feedback and support as you write and revise. All of this, makes the process of writing your book faster and easier and helps you write with clarity and confidence. 

This means you go from looking like the guy in the photo above to a proud book author holding your finished and published book. 📕

Sound good? 

Contact me when you’re ready if you need:

1. A book and writing coach to be your editorial guide, support and project manager as you write or re-write your book and/or book proposal.

2. A manuscript evaluation for a big picture, smallest detail overview.

3. A developmental editor to structure your book, and make the text clear, concise, and reader friendly.