HOW TO WRITE A BOOK

A book is a written or printed work consisting of pages fastened together along one side and bound in covers. It can be written, printed on any paper as long as it is bounded and meant for reading by others who need the information that it offers. It can also be a main division of literary work or a bound set of blank sheets for writing in.

Basically, talking, a book is what you can write in or a manuscript you typed and print from your computer, bounded for reading purpose or the safety of the information inside.

You must understand that the purpose of a book is to pass across information to audiences that are varied and diverse in nature, background, understanding, etc. which necessitates that one must be careful of the book one writes or read.

The purpose of a book:
1. To Teach:
A book helps in teaching morals, lifestyle and the basic understanding of life.
2. To Educate:
A book is a class room outside the school of studies, it upgrades minds by given it information and trainings in different aspects.
3. To Entertain
A book does entertain depending on the type of book it is. You can read Novels that does entertain or school children books that have imbedded in them laughing antidotes for you.
4. To Inform
A book informs about culture, life, environment and different languages existing across the globe.
5. To Help and Direct

Another thing is the power of a book to direct you away from negative life, failure, procrastination and mediocrity in life; Books like the motivational ones are in these categories.

We have three types of books in any given society that all writers need to know about; they are namely:
1. Prose books:
This is used for writing drama, magazine stories (short or long), books and newspapers. They are books of which a writer is free to use sentences of various lengths, but not allowed to use words as he likes. His words or dictions must be simple, clear and direct so that anybody picking the book will be able to read and understand it without bias to the words in use.

It is important to your understanding; all books must be written in a style of language prevalent in any given society, a language that is viewed as if you were talking to a friend.

2. Poetry books:
These are books writing in poetry style or that have added poems imbedded in them for people to gain insight into language and its usefulness. Some books are just poetry anthologies dealing in poetry analysis of different types of poets and poems; while others are basically compositions of an author’s different poem for comprehension, moral teachings and entertaining. Although poetry itself is a subject of the learned mind; it is not just anybody that can read poems and understand it due to its use of language differently sometimes from the local usage of language.

3. Motivational books:
These are books written about the knowledge or experience of an author on a particular subject. It means the writer or author is an authority on the subject and wishes to let the world know about the information or a problem he has just come out of. It is basically written in simple chapters, paragraphs, sentences and language for anybody to pick and understand.

4. Fictional books:
These are books written for the purpose of leisure or pleasure. They are composed of imaginary information, things that does not exist are put together to create a unique love for reading and help improve imaginations, language, thoughts, and cultural instincts.

5. Educational books:
These are books for schools. They are used for teaching, educating and training purposes. Mostly, they are written in prose style with a lot of information to be gleaned by students and teachers as well.

6. Biographical/Autobiographical books:
These are books written by an author about himself (autobiography) so as to let people know about his life, successes, struggles and who he/she is at the moment. But a biography is written by another person about the author for the sake of letting people know who the author really is either when he was alive after his demise or what is doing at the present.

There are many other ways to write a book but mostly they all follow same pattern except in paragraph and fonts usage which will be talked about hereunder:

Paragraph usage:
1. Blocked Paragraph:
When writing this no space is left to the left margin but new paragraph starts on a new line.
2. Indented Paragraph:
In writing this a space is left to the margin on the starting of every new paragraph.
3. Hanging Paragraph:
Using this means a paragraph is left hanging when writing. It is basically used in writing magazines and newspaper reporting.
4. Headed Paragraph:
In writing this you will give the paragraph a subtitle which is underlined before the development of the controlling idea.

You can use any of the three paragraphs above for writing your book or combine them to help your book more.

Font usage:
There are so many fonts for writing a book and making it readable but the advice is to make sure that whatever fonts you will using will be big enough and legible for any reader to see what is written or printed in a your book.

Essentially, the most prominent fonts in use are:
Times New Roman, Ariel, Ariel Black, Helvetica, etc. they are all important to becoming a better writer and publisher of books.


The Book: How To Write A Book
From: Treasured1 Creative Ideas Int.
By: Salau O John