The Idea: This is the hard part, determining the topic for your manuscript. You'd be surprised at the amount of ideas you might think of throughout the day that are thrown out because they're thought of as too simple to be of use. But most of the time "simple" information is what people are looking for! Throughout our lives we experience and have learned so much. You might think this information would not be of use to anyone else, but you'd be surprised how useful our experiences could be to someone else. Self publishing the experiences and knowledge you've accumulated could help someone or be exciting to read.

 

Planning your Product: Always keep your book to the point and informative. Write approximately 100 pages, which, equals 50, two sided pages. The content of your manuscript should include a title page with copyright, a table of contents,  references, acknowledgments, content, and index. This should be the basic minimum requirements for your book and it's content. You can always add other items.

 

The Manuscript: Now that you've decided on your idea, you'll need to create the outline to define it's content. You should break the idea into blocks of information. Now you should go through your idea, from general information to specific information. Check your outline multiple times, and have someone review it, to make sure everything is filled in right.

 

The Copyright: Protect your work, by copyrighting your book. This is a simple process. There are  several methods to protect your work. Check with your government and commercial organizations for the proper steps to insure this process.

 

What's next? This information we've provided is just a simple overview of the process. Perhaps, once you've gone through self publishing some of your own projects, you can and will come up with other creative way to self publish your work. The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and this rewarding proccess.