So how do you create your first e-book?

Now remember earlier you made a list of how you could improve on the products that are currently available in your particular niche, let’s use the same example, "Digital Photography for Beginners".

Make a list of twelve things you could write about Digital Photography for Beginners. Now I know absolutely nothing about this niche but let’s pretend I do. A sample draft of my list might look something like this:

Digital Photography for Beginners

1. Choosing your first camera 2. Preparing your new camera 3. The basics of your digital camera 4. Exposure for Beginners 5. How to create a strong photo (stopped here **) 6. Create photos without clutter 7. The Rule of Thirds 8. Framing your Views 9. Taking Close Ups 10. Photographic Projects 11. Tips, Tricks and Techniques 12. Resources

Now the twelve items above can serve as chapter headings. What you need to do now is create sub-headings for each of the above chapters. You might want to do this in a couple of sittings. You can make a note of between 3 to 5 different things that you can write about in the above twelve chapter headings.

If you create a minimum of three sub-headings per chapter, you would have created 36 different topics for your e-book.

Let us look at the first chapter which is choosing your first camera.

My three sub-headings might look something like this:

1. Choosing your first camera o deciding your budget o deciding your pixels o researching the best model available

Not a bad first draft? This exercise will make the writing of your e-book a lot quicker and easier to complete.

Now create three to five sub-headings for the other eleven chapters. Once that is done, you have created an outline of your first e-book. The outline contains twelve chapter headings and 36 sub-section headings.

Excellent!