Good morning James:
I can only repeat what another person on the list has
already said, AMAZON, not Google. I didn't even know that Google had an
electronic publishing arm. Millions know about Amazon. Your potential market
has already increased by several orders of magnitude just by doing that.
Outline what you are going to put in your book. Don't worry
about format, typeface, etc. just yet. You need to build a framework for
your content. As another person suggested, carry a notepad with you, AT ALL
TIMES. You never know when the muse is going to whisper something very good
into your ear.
Set aside a place where you do your writing and time to
write.
And you will hear this over and over "PLANT BUTT IN CHAIR
AND WRITE".
John M.
Multi-published fiction author.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 6:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Technical authoring
I'm going to do an administrator's guide for AppSense DesktopNow. There are
no books on it in existence besides the product manual, and I get regular
emails from admins asking if there is a book I can recommend to them. So I
guess I've got a bit of demand for it.
I was going to use Google's publishing arm to publish it electronically
first, and go from there...all advice around this is gratefully accepted.
Sent from my BlackBerry, which may make me an antiques dealer, but it's
reliable as hell for email delivery :-)
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I'd start with what are you planning to write about, who is going to buy it,
and who is going to publish it?
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:04 PM
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Subject: [NTSysADM] Technical authoring
I forgot to say thanks to everyone for the excellent help regarding public
speaking a month or so ago....the event went well, although I now know I
have a distressing tendency to lapse deeper into my native accent when under
pressure, but I am at least aware of that now :-)
Anyways....my next project, now that my doctor has told me to drink less and
sleep better, is to put together a technical book. So as with the public
speaking, I am a total virgin in this arena as well....do any of the list
members (obviously, particularly those with publications to their names)
have any pearls of wisdom or resources or best practices to share? I'm a
fairly accomplished writer - it's more layout, style, content, tips and
hints I am after. I'm very quick at putting words down on paper so I'm
hoping not to spend more than a few months on this, but I recognize this may
be an unduly short period for a properly authored resource.
As always, the help of the list is greatly appreciated and of immense value.
Cheers,
JR
--
James Rankin
Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS)
http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
