You may have read this title with some trepidation. Maybe you thought sure, you could write a short book in seven days if you spent every waking hour working on that book. But, who wants to do that? No one—that’s a surefire path to burnout.

Actually, you might be surprised to learn that that's not what I have in store for you at all. In fact, you can spend just a couple of hours each day working on writing short books and still be very successful. It all depends on how well you organize yourself, how quickly you’re able to write, and how motivated and focused you are.

I don't want you to spend 16 hours a day writing your book. It really is not that difficult and time intensive. You don't need to be stressed out about this. Approach your writing in a fun way. Don't make this a chore. You can even reward yourself along the way. Meet your word count goals for the day and allow yourself to have a bowl of ice cream or something.

I'm going to give you a few different options or examples of ways you can break your word counts and time down to get your book written in a week. Consider how much time you have available to do this. Then, think about it again – can you cut out some TV time? Or whatever leisure activity you usually invest in could be spent writing a little bit of your book instead…just a little bit a day will add up to big things.

Again, it's not about all work and no play – it's about balance. Eliminate the excuses and find ways you can get your word counts in every day.

Writing a little bit each day really adds up. Your book will be written and published before you know it. Daily consistent action equals success.

An Example with Numbers

Let's say you wanted to write a 10,000 word short nonfiction book to release on Kindle. First of all, get it out of your mind that you need to write 100,000 words over the course of months or years before you have a valuable book on your hands. That’s a starving artist mentality, not a business mentality. 100,000 word books can be valuable or they can be rubbish. 10,000 word books can be valuable or they can be rubbish.

It’s especially not true that longer equals better these days – Kindle readers often want shorter reads that will help them get to the bottom of their very specific problem more quickly and without fluff. You absolutely can write and publish extremely valuable content that falls between 5,000 to 25,000 words.

That's actually one of the beautiful things about Amazon Kindle. There are no gatekeepers – people vote with their dollars. Short nonfiction sells and it sells well. Write a book that focuses on helping people fix a single problem and you could have a hot seller on your hands.

So, for the purposes of illustration, we're going to play with the numbers it will take to write a 10,000-word book to release on Kindle. Does writing that kind of a word count in 7 days sound daunting? It does for most people who are just starting out, but it doesn’t have to be.

Even though 10,000 words is on the relatively low end of the word count for books, it still seems scary when you're not used to writing that length consistently. As long as you practice, you will get used to writing consistently. You’re no longer going to be scared of writing. "10,000 words" is going to seem easy to you… because it is easy.

You could write this length extremely easily in under 20 days. In order to write a 10,000-word book, you’d just have to write 500 words a day. If you do that, you would have the book finished in 20 days – that's less than a month. That's also the very bottom limit of what I recommend. You absolutely do not need or want to take any longer than that to write an easy flowing, helpful nonfiction book for Kindle.

But, let’s get back to the current example. Absolutely anyone can write 500 words in a day no matter how busy you are, how out of practice you are,