Is Your Book Idea Really a Book? 5 Tests for First‑Time Authors Before You Write a Single Chapter.

I think everyone should write a book. The world knows this. I say so on LinkedIn and in this blog on a regular basis.

But the truth is, writing doesn’t come naturally to everyone. In fact, too many people say they aren’t writing a book because they’re just not writers.

Well, most first-time authors I meet aren’t “bad at writing.” They graduated from fifth grade.  They know how to put a sentence together. To create paragraphs. To convey an idea.

The problem isn’t the writing; the problem is that they’re trying to write a book before they actually have one.