How to Start a Book: Practical Advice From Published Authors

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The below guide on how to start a book is part of Glamour's 2024 , which explores reasonable, quantifiable, and—crucially—sane ways to embark on self improvement objectives you'd like to complete this year.

We all know and are mostly designed to make us feel terrible about ourselves and, as a result, spend money on things we think we need to live a more fulfilling life.

Here, our senior editor—and published author—digs into how anyone can start writing the book they've always wanted by asking other authors for some of their best advice, from when to write to how to get your work noticed.Ever since was published, people keep confessing to me, “I want to write a book too, but don't know how to start a ." I get it.Writing a book has been my goal since I was in first grade, when I proudly proclaimed in a school paper that my dream was to one day become an author.

It's been such a constant in my life that I can scarcely remember when the idea wasn't in my head. But of course, it's one thing to have ambitions and it's another to sit in front of a computer with a blank document and start to you know, actually write a book.What I've learned since finishing is that while all published authors end up with a similar product, everyone's process is very different.