It takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill. If You want to be the next big basketball star, musician, or actress, its going to cost you a little over a year of straight dedication to your craft. If you want to be the best of the best in your field, its going to cost you 416 days of honing your skill. But what if you don't want to be the best? Well, in that case, its going to cost you around twenty hours of dedication to become proficient in a skill. So your not the best... but you can do it. With hardcore passion, you could knock that out over the weekend. What if you just want to know how its done? Lets say you don't even want to know how to do it, you just want to know how its actually done. It takes a couple of hours to learn the "In's and Out's" of a topic. If you're publishing non-fiction books on Kindle publishing, that's all you really need to be able to write a great and informative book to captivate readers and give them great value.
If you are publishing a book, be it writing it yourself or having it ghost-written, you are going to want to have a passion for the topic. Challenge yourself to find ten topics that you feel you would be interested in and write them down. Now that you have your list of ideas, go to the Kindle bookstore. Let's say "fishing" is on your list. When you type in "fishing" into the Kindle search bar, it will suggest topics you might be looking for. In our case, the Kindle search bar is giving us a list of topics that we could write on. Pick a suggestion that you feel you are interested in and click on it. The Kindle bookstore will take you to the search results of the suggestion you clicked on. Now you are going to want to click on a few books and look at the sales ranking for that book. You want the sales ranking to be 50,000 or lower. With a sales ranking of 50,000 or lower means that people are buying that book. You want to find three books that have a sales ranking of 50,000 or less. If you are able to find three books that have a sales ranking of 50,000 or less means people are buying books in that niche. Congratulations, you just learned a method on how to pick a niche on in the Kindle bookstore.
Oh crap! What if you don't know jack about fishing? You like fishing with your neighbor, but you don't know the first thing about setting a hook. Relax and take a deep breath. You don't have to be an angling expert to write a book on how to set a fishing hook. You only have to know how its done even if you couldn't do it to save your own life.
I'm a visual learner. I see how its done, and then I can repeat the steps. The best place for me to learn something is YouTube. It's a great place to learn about something you didn't know before. Look up some experts on YouTube in the field you are writing about. Get a pen and pad and jot down tons of notes and before you know it, you have a great outline for your book. You now know enough about the topic to write about it yourself, or pass it on to a ghost-writer to write it for you.
Your not a visual learner? You aren't doomed to watching endless videos on YouTube that drag on forever. This is the 21st century, and if someone has a passion, there is a forum online for it. Search out the top forums on your niche and get to work. Search out articles on your niche and start taking notes and learning all you can. In a few hours you should have a knockout outline from the info you gleamed from the forums in your niche.
There really are endless ways to learn about topics to write about. There are millions and millions of websites on every topic. Libraries filled with books on a wide assortment of topics, and of course, the oldest way in the book...Go ask an expert in person. No matter the method you take, you'll have a great book that adds value to someones life and add a few coins to your pocket.
