Write That Book! Idea to First Chapter in Three Hours
You've been saying you'll write this book for years. September 24th is a Thursday, not "one day."
Three hours at Gradient, and you leave with an outline and a first chapter drafted. Bring a laptop.
Here's what we actually do:
Pin down your topic and the one reader you're writing for
Interview yourself (the technique I use on paying clients, and the reason their books sound like them)
Feed your existing material — talks, posts, notes, recordings — into AI tools that organize it instead of writing it for you
Create a voice profile so the draft reads like you and not like a chatbot
Outline the whole book
Draft chapter one
I'll also cover what publishing actually costs, which route fits which book, and when you need an editor, an agent, or a proofreader. (Short version: not as early as you think.)
Who this is for: consultants, founders, executives, and subject-matter experts sitting on fifteen or twenty years of expertise they've never written down. Also anyone who's started a manuscript three times and stalled each time.
Fiction and screenwriters are welcome. The material is nonfiction.
$30. Bring your laptop, and bring the friend who keeps saying they have a book in them.
Hosted by Proofed & Proven, a Tulsa editorial agency that helps authors, activists, and academics publish nonfiction books, peer-reviewed research, and poetry.