How to Use Your Journaling to Write a Book with Tom Kreffer

Journaling is very popular right now, but could you produce a book from your journal entries?

I'm writing a parenting book at the moment, and journaling is the approach that I'm using. I wrote journal entries about the sorts of things that my kids got up to, then, when I was ready to write the book, I reorganized the entries and turned them into chapters.

Taking this approach works because if you write 300 words in your journal today, chances are tomorrow you'll feel a bit more comfortable about the topic and go past 300 words, and you might write 400 or even 500. If you do that for a week, you'll rack up a couple of thousand words. If you do it for the year, you'll undoubtedly have more than enough for your book or several books.

In this episode, I chat with Tom Kreffer. He's the author of Dear Dory: Journal of a Soon to Be First Time Dad, which he initially wrote as a series of journal entries when his partner was expecting their first child, before turning it into a book.

In this episode we discuss:

At what point Tom realized his personal journal could be a bookUsing humor in the book The pros and cons of parenting books for dadsLessons that Tom has learned from writing the book When did Tom find the time to write when working full timeTactics for promoting the book

Resources:

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