How To Write 1000 Words In 40 Minutes or Less

About this video

Dale interviews Chandler Bolt, who teaches a ‘mind map, outline, write’ method for getting a first 1,000 words done fast. First, put the book idea in the center of a blank page and mind map everything around it, then group the ideas into roughly five sections in the order you want to cover them, with about three chapters per section, giving a 15-chapter book outline. Then repeat the process at chapter level: spend 10 minutes mind mapping one chapter, 10 minutes turning that into a chapter outline, and 30 minutes to an hour writing it. Bolt’s alternative for people who speak better than they write is to speak the chapter instead and have it transcribed: because the average person speaks about 150 words a minute, 10 minutes of speaking yields roughly 1,500 words. He stresses that speaking only fails when people skip the mind map and outline and ramble for 30 to 50 minutes with no structure. The same process, he says, also works for speeches, talks, and videos, and he promotes a book outline generator that includes often-forgotten front matter like the acknowledgements, table of contents, and copyright page.

Key takeaways

• Use a three-step process — mind map, then outline, then write — instead of staring at a blank document waiting for inspiration.
• Build the book outline by grouping mind-mapped ideas into about five sections with roughly three chapters each, for a 15-chapter structure.
• At chapter level, spend 10 minutes mind mapping and 10 minutes outlining before writing for 30 minutes to an hour.
• If you speak better than you write, dictate the chapter and transcribe it: at about 150 spoken words per minute, 10 minutes produces roughly 1,500 words.
• Never skip the mind map and outline before dictating, or a 30- to 50-minute recording will drift and lose coherence.

Episode details: published November 14, 2019 · 8:32 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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