How to Write a Book in 6 Months or Less

Are you interested in learning how to write a book in 6 months or Less?

Writing a book in six months can sound like a daunting task: Most Americans don't even read a book in six months! The typical novel is over 50,000 words. This blog post will teach you how to write a blog in 6 months or less. 


Writing a book can have an incredible impact on your career, family, and personal satisfaction. 'Books are the new business card' (Fast Company) One group puts together the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) every year in November to challenge authors and writers to write 50,000 words in one month!

Why Write A Book?

 Authors have may have many different goals for writing a book, and it may be many different goals that help complete the end product:

• Writing a book for Profit -- Make Money - Many authors enjoy a full-time income from producing 1-2 books per year. In fact, many of us have the romantic ideal of an author living in a beach island (Sicily, Carribean, New Zealand) and enjoying royalty checks sent directly into our Swiss bank accounts. Whether you write a children's story for your 4 year old daughter over the course of 6 months, or a complete how-to guide to Amish Woodworking, a market exists for your product and they are willing to invest time and money to learn from your experience.
• Personal Enjoyment and Satisfaction - Writing is a fulfilling and personally rewarding form of entertainment. Whether you are a hobby woodworker, a hobby metal detector, or model plane builder, writing a book can be a great way to track your own progress, stay organized, and build a portfolio of your work that you can show to friends or family. By dedicating a small amount of time each day, at the end of days and weeks the amount of work you have created will astound and impress you!
• Get Paid a Full Time or Part Time Income to write for other businesses and freelancers - After a few months, your skills will have improved to the point where others will want to use your skills to help promote their blog or website. By using websites such as Fiverr.com, ODesk.com, Elance.com you may be able to develop a part-time or full-time source of income to do what you love!

How To Write A Book in 6 Months:

1. Write for 30 minutes per day and aim for 450-550 words during this time. The higher quality the content, the less editing will be required in the later stages to prepare for publication. Well researched articles, information that will be relevant in 6 months to 5 years, all will begin to write a well developed and researched book day after day, week after week.
2. Begin writing your book by creating a blog and post one-500 word article per day that is informative and educational for your readers. By the time you have written enough content for a book, you have an organized, cross-referenced, readable document and a built in audience. Certain topics will always be relevant and important, in any city anywhere in the world. For Example, with Mr Frugal Life future posts will be:
1. How To Save Money
2. How To Save Money on Utilities
3. How To Save Money By Cooking Great Food At Home
4. How To Save Money on Groceries
5. How To Save Money on Heating & Electricity Bills
6. How To Save Money on Rent 
7. How To Save $300 when purchasing a Brand New Mattress
8. How To Save Money on Car
9. How To Live on $1000 per Month Budget
10. How To Save Money on House Repair
11. How To Negotiate
12. How To Negotiate Like A Salesman
13. How To Sell Like A Natural Salesman
14. How To Make Money
15. How To Make Money Online
16. How To Make Money on Ebay
17. How To Save Time
18. How To Save Time and Make More Money at Work
19. How To Save Time and Make More Money as an Entrepreneur
20. How To Learn Better and Retain Information
21. How To Ask Better Questions
22. How To Go To College For Free
23. How To Write Short Stories
24. How To Make Better Grades 
25. How To Land A High Value Scholarship
26. How To Make it Through College with Straight A's
27. How To Budget as a College Student
28. How To Make Homemade Bread
29. How To Cook in a Crockpot
30. How To Build a Storage shelf
31. How To Build a Storage Container
32. How To Get Organized
33. How To Draw Floor Plans
34. How To Clean A Kitchen
35. How To Fix Your Car
3. By making writing a daily, continual habit, you will begin to improve and have a large body of work from which to promote yourself, your activities, and stay organized.

Resume-A-Day 30 day challenge

Creating a resume is your first step in establishing a new business relationship. A resume is a one or two page summary of your skills, employment history and contact information. Whether you are gainfully employed, looking for a new job, or are a successful freelancer, maintaining a resume that is up-to-date is important for many reasons:

• Opening new doors and opportunities is the goal of an up-to-date and high-quality resume, which may not always be a new job opportunity. A resume and/or portfolio can very quickly lead to new clients, potential business partnerships, and a higher profile as a business leader.
• Maintaining an up to date, factual, concise and detailed resume is more important than ever. Without writing down classes, special events, awards, projects, publications are all harder to remember 5 or 10 years later when you are trying to put together a resume last minute after losing the main source of income. Without a back up plan and continual practice of resume preparation and interview, the transition to a new job may be long and difficult.
• Preparing for an interview, remaining marketable, and consistently sharpening business skills is important whether or not actively seeking new employment. The ability to 'sell' is important for job seekers, entrepreneurs, and C-Level professionals alike.

Creating and maintaining is an important skill. Also, applying to 30 open positions in 30 days requires performing research on potential job opportunities. In performing this research, you may find certain skills you may want to emphasize on your resume, or new skills to learn to land the job you want in the future.

30 Day Resume-A-Day Employment Challenge

In order to stay relevant in an increasingly difficult job market, earn more income, and sharpen your employment skills, Mr Frugal Life challenges you to a "30 day Resume-A-Day Employment Challenge":

30 Day Employment Challenge Rules

• Must send a resume and apply for one open job position per day for 30 days. This step involves researching potential companies that are in your interests/professional background, preparing a cover letter, and updating your resume to be tailored for the specific position.
   

Mr Frugal Life 30 Day Resume-A-Day Challenge Results:

1.  January 16th, 2014: sent Resume to Professor for community college class assignment.
2. January 18th, 2014: http://www.PaySimple.com -- Financial StartUp in Denver, Colorado. Source: http://www.Reddit.com/r/DenverJobs/
3. January 19th, 2014: Land Surveyor in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Source: http://www.Albuquerque.Craigslist.org
4. January 19th, 2014: MATLAB Developer for Energy Firm in Golden, CO jhimebaugh@snitechnology.com Source: http://www.LinkedIn.com InMail
5. January 19th, 2014: Denver Math Fellows Program Tutor http://www.teachindenver.com/teachindenver/how-to-apply.html  Source: http://www.Reddit.com/r/DenverJobs/
6. January 19th, 2014: Enerplus Engineering Entry Level in Denver, Colorado http://www.enerplus.com Source: http://www.Reddit.com/r/DenverJobs/
7.  January 19th, 2014: Live Consulting Network Technician in Denver, Colorado http://www.liveconsulting.com/current-openings-and-how-to-submit-a-resume-to-live-consulting/ Source: http://www.Reddit.com/r/DenverJobs/
8. January 19th, 2014: Better With Bacon -- Front End Developer (Javascript) in Denver, Colorado: http://www.bwbacon.com/ Source: http://www.Reddit.com/r/DenverJobs/
9. January 20th, 2014: Javascript/CSS/HTML Developer needed for Miami StartUp Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/
10. January 21st, 2014: Drill and Blast Technician, Wright, WY with Arch Coal http://www.ArchCoal.com Source: Job/Career Fair 
11. January 22nd, 2014: IT Coordinator/Creative Designer - Non Profit in Denver, Colorado: source: http://www.Reddit.com/R/DenverJobs
12. January 23rd, 2014: Quarry Manager - Arkansas source: MiningJobSearch.com . 
13. January 25th, 2014: Software Field Sales Rep - Denver, Colorado. Source: www.LinkedIn.com .

Please note: The underlined items in the above lists were jobs where I was contacted back by the recruiter/employer. 

What I learned about employment, resumes and careers from applying to 30 jobs in 30 days

Jobseekers are in a tough environment, with competition for any reasonable position. To land a job requires diligence, constant maintenance and improvement of skills, and constantly be searching and applying for jobs. In a specific field (for example, geotechnical engineering) the jobs may be at only a few companies with a few positions, so one might not become available immediately when you want to start searching for a job.

Top 10 How To Get A Career Tips

1. Learn More Skills for your Resume.
2. Keep in constant contact with your Personal and Professional Network.
3. Constantly monitor job openings, closed positions, retirements, in your field in the most important companies.

Welcome to the official blog of "Mr Frugal Life" !

Mr Frugal Life: Personal Finance Blog

We are a personal finance and entrepreneurship blog and source of information for people who want:

• Save money, diversify our income, and begin to start investing for our future generations.
• Find gainful, full time employment with benefits through starting our own businesses and promoting entrepreneurial activity.
• Enjoying the freedom to travel, learn, read and explore your own interests. That is truly living a frugal life, and we will work together at the blog of Mr Frugal Life.

Mr Frugal Life is your financial guide:

• How to save money, how to your enjoy life by reducing expenses, how to make money and diversify your income.
• Reducing everyday household expenses such as Electricity, Gas or Wood heating, Food costs, water, entertainment and other household expenses.
• Improving professional skills, abilities, and network. Resume writing tips, Job Postings, tips, and much more!

 Who is Mr Frugal Life?

• I am a 38 year old engineer, entrepreneur and personal finance enthusiast. I have always been interested in owning my own business from a young age. I have developed my own skills and talents to be a full time freelance professional, and I want to help others save money and earn a higher income. 

Why does Mr Frugal Life write?

• I want to help others around me live a more fulfilling and financially independent life. Whether you have just started your financial career, or you are nearing retirement, learning proper financial habits from free lessons is important, rather than continually paying for expensive lessons. We are helping Extremely Low Income, Economically struggling, day-to-day and paycheck to paycheck the average everyday person save money and earn a higher income.

Thank you for visiting Mr Frugal Life and we look forward to helping you save money, earn more income, and enjoying more freedom!