How to Write a Fitness Book - A Simple Technique

The course is a good introduction to writing a book and it gives me a good plan for doing this on my own. It's a good way to have some marketing and get some experience as an author. I'm excited to have a place to start now.

The course description says “You’ll get a step-by-step guide to writing and promoting your book.“ Well…. Lecture 2: I don’t like looking at one slide and a voiceover Lecture 3 : What is your message. Niches are given but it would have been interesting if these had been expanded on. 3 minutes for a lecture on niches is way too short. It also would have helped if Ron had given examples of his books and their message. Lecture 4: How you do anything. Again examples from his books would have been helpful Lecture 5 : Research. Given that this is a course about writing a fitness book far greater analysis of using Amazon to research your book would help. Again, 6 minutes to cover researching your book is way way too short. At least an hour, with examples, I’d have thought. Lecture 6: Details – a 5 minute lecture! This is a course by a published author and so much more could have been made of his own publications and using them as examples. Yes, there are hints but no linking of the research, the book, the niche and then sales. We are not learning much from his experience. This lecture is really a checklist of questions. Lecture 7 : Write daily. It would have been interesting to see his own schedule for one of his books rather than just a list and a talking head. So far no lecture has encouraged students – there are thousands – to post in the q/a with their progress. No involvement. Lecture 8 : Editing. Nothing about how to find an editor Lecture 9 : Use a service. Very little about services offered. Ideally a resource could have been added with links. Websites are mentioned but no link Lecture 10: Editing takes time – so how long might it take – give examples from your own experience I stopped making notes after this as the criticisms would still be the same. Every single lecture – the whole course – is way way too short. The material contained is excellent BUT it really is simply a collection of checklists. Two minutes covering copyright, for example! Just two minutes. What is most disappointing is: 1. Ron has a series of books on Amazon. Why not tell us what he learnt with these? How he marketed them? What he did about reviews? What would he do now if he re-wrote them? 2. There are 4,200 students on the course and yet I am the ONLY one who wrote in the Q/A. is no-one else interested? Which leads me on to…. 3. Where is the encouragement from the lectures to post in the Q/A? where are the exercises? The sample titles? The examples of student work? There has been one Educational Announcement – ever! This is a book-writing course. Surely students are eager to write? To cover how to write a fitness book in a 45 minute course is way way too ambitious UNLESS there is plenty of discussion and examples as the checklists are applied. This did not happen. I would expect a course like this to be at least 30 hours long with plenty of resources, extra documents, samples from books, links to follow, contact details etc etc and a high level of Instructor involvement - and encouragement. Ron did respond to my first post quickly – maybe that will encourage others. There is so much more that this course could be....

yes a good match for me