How to Blog a Powerful Book

Can You Really Blog a Book?

Create a blog and turn it into a book is popular advice — does it work?

Sounds easy, doesn’t it?

It’s not.

Full disclosure: I’ve suggested this approach to people who want to write a book without hiring a ghostwriter but find the writing process overwhelming. I don’t personally know anyone who has actually blogged a book.

I believe the advice to blog your non-fiction book is sound as far as it goes. But here’s the catch:

Whether you’re writing blog posts, books, or any other type of content, that content has to be high quality if it’s going to attract and keep an audience.

Let’s say you’ve written 50 blog posts averaging 1,000 words each and they meet the test of quality content. Do you have a book?

Maybe.

Just as individual articles need to be organized, so does your book. Take a look at what you’ve got and put it into a structure that makes sense.

You may find that a post you wrote early in the process works better at the end of your book. You may realize that you’re still missing some key elements of your message, which means you have more writing to do. And you may decide that some of your blog posts don’t…

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