You don't have to create a strict outline. The kind of outline you need to create is one based on components.

Non-fiction is much easier to write than fiction because these books contain similar components.

Let's have a look at some of them:

* A foreword. This is similar to an introduction, but a foreword is usually written by someone other than author of book. It helps if you can get someone famous to contribute foreword. (They'll expect payment.)

* An introduction. This is optional. If you can't think of anything to put in an introduction, leave it out. Think of including an introduction if you want to tell your own story: how you came to get information you're about to share.

* A "How To Use This Ebook" chapter or page. This can be short, or quite long. For example, if you're writing a book on yoga, you could use this chapter to give four or five exercise routines, compiled from various poses that you discuss in rest of book.

* Chapters with problems and solutions. For example, if you were writing a book on dieting, you could write seven chapters all posing a typical problem, and then provide solutions for each problem.

* The last chapter is wrap-up. In this chapter you'll want to give readers instructions on where they go from here, and you'll also want to include an inspirational message.

* A glossary is useful if it will be necessary for readers new to subject area. For example, if your ebook contains a lot of industry jargon with which your reader is unfamiliar, give explanations of terminology here.

* An index. I'm always disappointed when an otherwise excellent book, that I'll be referring to again, omits an index. I know creating an index is a hassle, but if you think your readers will use it, then go extra mile and include it.

There you have it. The bones of your ebook. With skeleton in place, you'll find it easy to write.

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Money guru Suzie Orman claims we take care of our money way we take care of ourselves. In my work as a creativity coach and my own experience of writing five books, essays, screenplays, and a TV script, I have found same to be true: We take care of our creativity way we take care of ourselves.

Six things I believe about writing:

If you put your bottom in chair, you are a writer; it ain't about what people think.

Learn to surrender to desire to create.

Learn to value your own opinion.

Learn to speak to yourself like someone you love.

Learn to separate out opinions from facts.

Learn to have faith.

"Why is it that I wanted to write and what was it that made me feel that way?" Allow, however, it is that you feel to pour out on to paper before you.

Timed writing three minutes.

Done with lightness.

Ways to use: warm up, clear out head, generate ideas, generate content that you can then revise on computer, outline, go back into a piece and expand or generate new energy into a section.

An idea for a one week practice: Go back to this first session then pick from any number of questions that you could ask of your original writer, like: Why is it that I want to write? What it is that I really want to write? What is it that has held me back from writing as I would like to? What can I do to change destiny of my writing?

Letters between Jung and Freud: Watcher at gate and he keeps them from their genius, place in themselves that wants to speak. They agreed to make monstrous clay heads and when they wrote about whatever was meaningful to them, they would turn them to wall, actively turn Watcher away.

Writing practice: If I turn my Watcher to wall then...