Finally, after a lot of struggle and work, you solved your problem. You found a solution, and you made your life better. But you didn’t just find the solution to this problem, you mastered it. You’re great at implementing this solution. Yes, there are times you doubt yourself—like we all do—but part of you is even a little proud of yourself and what you’ve accomplished. You know some things (at least about this problem). Although you’ve never written a book before, you keep coming back to the idea of writing one, for two main reasons: 1. You want to share your hard-earned knowledge to help people solve the same problem you used to have. You want to give this wisdom back to others, so it can impact them. Basically, you want to help people through your book. 2. You want some recognition for what you did. I am not implying that recognition is bad—quite the opposite. It is natural and right to want your peers and family and friends to know the real you and see what you’ve done. And it’s normal to hope this recogni- tion will actually help you in some way as well, probably in your career (and maybe even in your personal life, too). I’d bet you’ve been thinking about writing a book for a while. You’ve probably had people saying, “you should write a book” to you long before now. But you didn’t acknowledge it, because the next step—writing the book—was too scary. After all, you don’t know where to start, or how to structure your book, or if your book idea is good enough, or if you have enough to say, or if anyone will care once you write it. And there’s the worst fear of all, the one you don’t want to talk about, but always lingers. 10 · ThE SCriBE METhOD