Archives for Book Writing and Translation

Books to Translate This Year (2023)

After getting feedback from you, my dear friends, readers, or members of the ElziStyle Books Family, last 2 weeks and for which I’m truly grateful, here will be the next books to translate: * Murtada Mutahhari, ISLAM WA NIYAZ-HA-ye ZAMAN (Islam and the Exigencies of Time), Volumes 1-2 Of the 4 titles, it earned the greatest number of suggestions – 50%. My target is to finish translating the 1st volume in less than 4 months; that is, from February 20-March
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Which Title Do You Want to Read First This Year?

Al-hamdulillah, as shown in MindaNews’ latest report on 2022 Mindanao books (https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2023/01/mindanao-2022-at-least-50-mindanao-books-published-19-more-than-2021-harvest), ElziStyle Bookshop tops the list of indie publishers for having the most number of published titles (8 books) in 2022. Now, below are the 4 titles in the pipeline of 2023-24 translation projects: * Murtada Mutahhari, HAJJ (Hajj: A Philosophical Exposition) * Murtada Mutahhari, NAZARI BEH NIZAM-e IQTISADI-ye ISLAMI (A Glance at the Islamic Economic System) * Murtada Mutahhari, ISLAM WA NIYAZ-HA-ye ZAMAN (Islam and the Exigencies of
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Evaluating 3rd Month of Book Writing

Welcome aboard Flight BW14 with service of the Third Month of Book Writing Evaluation! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6:
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3rd Month of Book Writing

Welcome aboard Flight BW13 with service of the Third Month of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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My 2nd Quarter of 2022 as a Self-published Author and Translator

At the end of the first quarter, I mentioned the following as my targets for the 2nd Quarter (April-June 2022) as a self-published author and translator: 1. To distribute at least 30 written and translation books online and offline (3 more titles compared to the previous quarter), 2. To locally publish at least 3 more books (compared to only 1 title during the previous quarter), and  3. To finish the current book project and publish it.  Let’s see what actually
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Evaluating 2nd Month of Book Writing

Welcome aboard Flight BW12 with service of the Second Month of Book Writing Evaluation! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6:
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7th and 8th Weeks of Book Writing as Drafting

Welcome aboard Flight BW11 with service of the 7th Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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6th Week of Book Writing as Drafting

Welcome aboard Flight BW10 with service of the 6th Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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5th Week of Book Writing as Drafting

Welcome aboard Flight BW9 with service of the 5th Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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Evaluating 1st Month of Book Writing

Welcome aboard Flight BW8 with service of First Month of Book Writing Evaluation! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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My Writing and Translation Journey in April 2022

As soon as I embarked on my current book writing – HOW TO SHARI’AH-COMPLIANTLY INVEST IN THE PHILIPPINE STOCK MARKET – on the first day of March, I had already mentioned that it will be resumed in May and to be finished in June, insha’ Allah (https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal). Although ideally, writing should be done continuously without any interruption, I had no option because, firstly, this year’s Ramadan fell mostly in the month of April, and I have an ongoing long-term translation
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4th Week of Book Writing as Drafting

Welcome aboard Flight BW7 with service of the Fourth Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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3rd Week of Book Writing as Drafting

Welcome aboard Flight BW6 with service of the Third Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING In my previous
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1st and 2nd Week of Writing as Drafting

Welcome aboard Flight BW5 with service from Brainstorming to the Second Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS In my previous post, I promised to share with you the
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My Work Ethics and Productivity Tips

Book Writing Post #4 If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK (https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market)  Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB (https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club)  Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION (https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal)  In my previous post, I promised to disclose to you – for the first time – a secret window to my personal work ethics and productivity tips before proceeding to
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