Up to Snuff #47: Nice Ways to Prepare to Write a Book
By, Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
- PHD Research and Dissertation and becoming authority on a subject
- Engage in Academic Research
- Engage in Independent Research
- Build a Database
- Design a software for your book or books, study software development
- Design a set and build from set, plot and theme, with questions
- Journal
- Collect or compile: poems, articles or recipes or emails or build anthology of many writers
- Start with an APA Format Research Proposal, build a bibliography, then research , then write book
- Blow up a dot
- Investigative methods, even international or at libraries or with surveys or online or in databases like a legal database for example, or in newspaper archives, or in historical records, or by asking questions and attending events, keeping notes or with tape recorders
- By going to school in general and accessing good libraries and papers including dissertations
- By working or gaining expertise in an area via some particular access to knowledge
- Use of technology and programs to aid in generation of information like for humor
- Kinds of scripting or plays or performative writings built from readings, staging, or movement
- Design a book of images such as from photography or art in an art catalogue or musical compositions or get culinary degree and create specialized cook books
- Documentary photo and journalistic stories
- Create historical documentation archive of one’s job, city, family, state, organizations, save clippings over time
- Teach something or heal something
- Field Studies
- Use filing systems to build books (some have built from note cards)
- Record a book