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Wiley got in touch with him, and I'm delighted that he came on board. I understand that Wiley's policy is not to accept unsolicited proposals for For Dummies books, so if you want to write one, you could try approaching them through an agent, or see whether you can work with the publisher on other series first.

It also helps to raise your online visibility in your area of expertise. The first book I wrote for Wiley was Social Networking for the Older and Wiser , after one of their commissioning editors found me through Twitter.

Nuts and bolts of writing a For Dummies book Once the project got the go-ahead and we signed contracts, I was sent the Word templates I needed to use to write the book. They were different to the templates I'd been using for my previous Wiley books, but the good thing was that they were designed to more or less represent the layout of a For Dummies book.

That has two advantages: Most importantly, it means you get quite a good estimate of page count as you go along. Books are commissioned by page count, so you need to have an idea of how many words fit on a final printed page.

That's affected by the number of headings, pictures, lists and so on, so it's not easy to work out yourself. Secondly, you do feel like you're writing a real For Dummies book, because the layout is in place early on.

This is quite unusual, and can help to motivate you. The templates are designed to cover every type of Dummies guide, so they include a lot of formats and examples I didn't need. I stripped down the Word template to include just a sample chapter title, sample introductory bullets, sample body paragraph and sample image caption.

When I occasionally needed a table or something else, I copied it from the original Wiley templates, but having a reusable blank sheet with just the styles I needed saved a lot of time.

I also created a spreadsheet for managing the book, which helped me to keep track of progress, and make sure I was consistently hitting targets. It also calculated the final page counts for each chapter by taking the page count in Word, and adding in a third of a page for each picture. Each day, I would update it with the number of pages I'd written and the number of pictures I'd made, and it would tell me what percentage of the book was written, and where chapters were under or over their planned page count.

It was also vital for keeping notes of crossreferences to things I hadn't written yet, and anything I needed to double check. The writing and editing process The writing schedule ran from 11th September contract signature to 17th December final delivery of first draft.

The copy editor didn't start editing until December, so these milestones were mainly about ensuring the book was on track throughout the writing process. Mike and I worked largely independently, although we helped each other out with a few things along the way, and we liaised where there would be crossreferences between our chapters. I created example programs too that would demonstrate what the Raspberry Pi could do with Scratch and Python. I wanted to avoid recreating anything else that was already out there, so I did a bit of research to see what other books had used as examples and came up with something different.

I was surprised that although there were a lot of guidelines on formatting, there were very few guidelines on the writing style of a For Dummies book. Service invoice Green Gradient design. Modern flyer. Weekly assignment sheet color, landscape. Sale flyer. Banner calendar. Blue steps letterhead. Cheerful presents birthday card.