Naima B. Robert – 4 Types of Books that Muslim Women Could Write and Publish Muslimah Author Project

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A speaker discusses the types of books that can be written and how they can help students achieve their goals in writing. They explain that each type of book requires a specific skill set and each one requires a certain goal. The speaker also offers resources for practicing the skill set and encourages students to apply for a free book roadmap.

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			I have a question for you.
		
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			When you think of writing a book, a
		
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			non fiction book,
		
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			what type of book comes to mind for
		
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			you? Is it, an autobiography?
		
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			Is it a self help book? Is it
		
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			something else entirely?
		
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			How much do you know about the types
		
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			of books that you could be writing in
		
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			order to get your story,
		
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			message, or knowledge out into the world in
		
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			order to create a legacy and gain sadaqa
		
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			Well, my name is Naima b Robert, and
		
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			I am the award winning author of almost
		
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			30 books for children, teens, and
		
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			adults. And I'm on a mission to create
		
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			222
		
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			Muslimah authors by the end of the year.
		
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			And so in this video,
		
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			I'm gonna be talking to you about the
		
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			types of books
		
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			that you could potentially be writing inshallah.
		
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			In a
		
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			essentially and in a nutshell,
		
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			I'm gonna go over 4 different types of
		
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			books
		
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			that most of our clients end up writing
		
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			when they want to share a story, message,
		
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			or knowledge. And the first one is a
		
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			story based book.
		
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			This is what we call a memoir.
		
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			This is the story,
		
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			stories from your life. A lot of people
		
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			think that,
		
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			a memoir is
		
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			just the same as an autobiography.
		
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			The way I like to break it down
		
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			for my clients is that an autobiography
		
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			is a story of your life, whereas a
		
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			memoir
		
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			is the stories
		
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			from your life.
		
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			So basically, a memoir can be themed around
		
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			all sorts of things. It could be just
		
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			a a chapter of your life. It could
		
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			be, you know, a situation that you went
		
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			through, an experience that you went through. It's
		
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			not I was born here and then everything
		
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			that happened up until now. So that's the
		
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			story based book. That's the memoir.
		
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			Certain skills are needed in order to be
		
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			able to do memoir well,
		
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			and I will let you know how you
		
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			can find out more about that at the
		
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			end of this inshallah. But the second type
		
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			of book is the guidance based book.
		
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			We call it guidance based.
		
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			It ends up being a self help book
		
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			or a transformational book. This is the type
		
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			of book that a lot of my coaches
		
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			like to write because it helps them to
		
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			take the reader on a journey
		
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			of transformation, of self discovery. That will be
		
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			more your self help book, your transformational book.
		
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			We're all familiar with the self help genre.
		
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			And if you are a coach,
		
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			you know, or you're somebody who helps people
		
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			go through some kind of transformation, obviously, that's
		
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			the right book for you.
		
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			The 3rd type of book is the expertise
		
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			based book. Okay? So that's the instructional book.
		
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			That's the kind of book where you share
		
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			your knowledge
		
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			straight, where you share your systems, where you
		
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			might share, you know, the tools that you
		
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			use in order to achieve a particular outcome.
		
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			This is really great for my experts out
		
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			there,
		
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			for my teachers and my trainers out there.
		
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			If what you teach is more about, you
		
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			know, kind of tools and, even habits and
		
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			and a system
		
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			where you could do step 1, step 2,
		
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			step 3, and, and it's more physical based,
		
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			then this is the type of book for
		
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			you.
		
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			That's number 3.
		
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			Number 4, I call it the community based
		
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			book. And it's basically the anthology.
		
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			This is the type of book where you
		
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			have a theme and
		
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			you
		
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			base the content of the book on the
		
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			community. So you get other people to write
		
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			whether it's poetry, whether it's essays, whether it's
		
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			whatever it is. In to make up this
		
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			book, this is an anthology
		
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			so it takes from, you know, all the
		
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			people, you know, who are relevant to the
		
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			story, relevant to what it is that you
		
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			want, the story, the message, or the knowledge,
		
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			and you put them all together in one
		
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			book with you as the editor and you
		
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			probably will write a piece for that as
		
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			well.
		
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			All 4 types
		
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			of these of all four types of books
		
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			are nonfiction.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			But
		
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			each one of these 4 types of books
		
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			requires
		
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			a certain skill set.
		
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			They are not all the same.
		
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			They don't all require the same skills, and
		
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			they don't all achieve
		
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			the same goals in the same way.
		
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			Now I hope that doesn't sound confusing.
		
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			I have helped
		
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			my clients to write all these types of
		
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			books.
		
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			And the way that we get them to
		
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			understand
		
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			which type of book is perfect for them
		
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			is by getting them to go through our
		
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			brilliant book road map. Okay? Our brilliant book
		
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			road map is the basically the way that
		
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			we allow get our clients to get clarity
		
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			on the book, on the audience, and on
		
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			what exactly it is that they're going to
		
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			be writing.
		
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			And I would love to share that resource
		
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			with you. So click on the link around
		
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			this video wherever you're watching it or comment
		
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			book roadmap
		
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			and we will get a copy out to
		
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			you. It's a free gift from my team
		
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			and I.
		
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			We want you to have this resource so
		
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			that you too can get clarity on the
		
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			type of book that you could be writing.
		
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			And if you already know that you want
		
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			to be one of those Muslim authors that
		
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			we celebrate at the end of the year,
		
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			simply go to naimarobert.com/services,
		
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			and you will see the other authors that
		
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			we've helped. And you can click on the
		
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			link simply to apply to work with my
		
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			team and I. We would love to celebrate
		
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			your book with you at the end of
		
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			the year. Insha'a
		
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			Until the next one.