“How to Write a Book in 48 Hours” by Dale L. Roberts

How to Write a Book in 48 Hours

Dale L. Roberts
ONE JACKED MONKEY LLC (2023)
ISBN: 978-1639250028
Reviewed by Tammy Ruggles for Reader Views (12/2023)

“How to Write a Book in 48 Hours: A Simple Step-by-Step System for Writing a Good Book Fast” by Dale L. Roberts is the concise guide you need to begin writing your first or next book today. In easy, straightforward language, this author breaks down what you need to do to write a good book in just 48 hours. It doesn’t sound possible, because most people believe it takes weeks, months, or years to write a good book. The main thing to remember is that this book is from one author’s perspective, and although his methods and advice can be found online, he has something else to offer that a search engine can’t, and that’s his own personal experiences, the ones he chooses to pass on to you in this book.

Roberts gets to the meat and potatoes of how to write quickly. It’s obvious from his enthusiasm and natural educational style that he was meant to be a writer. He explains in just a few pages the information contained in multiple books hundreds of pages each. It’s not exactly a recipe formula. You must still know how to write. But this guide takes most of the mystery and angst out of it. For example, with the author’s experience of writing over fifty books, he can tell you the things to do, and not to do, because he’s been there, done that.

This is advice you would need to pay speakers hundreds of dollars for, multiple times. Just a few of the pieces of actionable advice you’ll find in his chapters include how and why to set your timeline, ways of producing content, the best way to outline, how to edit and proofread, options for publishing, how and where to market, etc.

The big takeaway lesson for me in the book is that you shouldn’t make writing and publishing hard when it doesn’t have to be. Readers will enjoy the author’s personable, encouraging style. You can tell he enjoys helping others succeed, and his own success story is one we can all learn from.

If you’re a writer, you’ve probably run into his writing videos on YouTube. He has a very popular and sought-after online presence, and it’s easy to see why. He explains it all, from something as simple as how to choose a good title, to how to make a good writing checklist. If you’re looking for a simple writing guide that you can digest in one sitting, but use for years to come, “How to Write a Book in 48 Hours: A Simple Step-by-Step System for Writing a Good Book Fast” by Dale L. Roberts is a must for your writing toolbox.