How to write a book.

In particular, how to get started.

It is often said that everyone has a book in them, and I happen to ascribe to this theory. Anyone who has lived a busy life or a long career is likely to have something to say and to have something worth listening to.

Or perhaps you are still young, and have yet to put what you have learned so far into practise. But you will, and one day you might want to tell people what you learned on the way.

You could write it all down.

But how?

I have spent decades working as a rocket scientist in a large and very successful rocket science corporation. In particular, I specialise in predicting the future, in new concept design and innovating in an attempt to determine what we might be building in twenty years time.

To achieve this I have picked up plenty of skills from a wide variety of sources, to assemble the whole thing into an approach that I have found, so far, seems to work for me.

If you too have a good chunk of career under your belt have you ever stopped to wonder how you do what you do? How do you know what you know?

After all, your education can only teach you so much, and you may have found that there is a difference between theory and practise. You may at first have…