Women's Network April 2018 | Page 66

TAKE NOTES TO CREATE, WRITE & PUBLISH YOUR BOOK Do you take notes? Do you centralise your notes? Do you allow time to connect the dots? Can simply being more methodical about your note taking make creating, writing and publishing a book easier? Dyan Burgess thinks that it does. I t is no secret that some of the greatest note takers of our time are also serial authors. Names that come to mind are people like Arianna Huffington, Richard Branson, James Patterson, Gretchen Rubin, Tim Ferriss and J. K. Rowling. Regardless of the answer, there seems to be a strong relationship between note taking and publishing books. Therefore, the question you should ask yourself is “Do I take notes?” If not, perhaps you will after reading this article. Note taking, in my experience is the single most powerful step to enable building the most effective and efficient foundation to create published works. For book creation, writing and ultimately publishing, you may like to consider these five ideas. 66 Women’s Network Magazine