
What I Learned Writing a 50,000 Word Book
Writing a Book May Be Different from What You Expect
Late last year, as I was planning for the year to come, I began setting goals for 2018. Some were habits I wanted to create; others, things I wanted to accomplish.
But one goal stood out above and beyond the rest in terms of complexity, commitment, and ambition: write and publish my first book.
I had never written a book before, not did I consider myself much of a writer. My only related experience was a few blog posts for my creative agency and some articles on Medium that had earned a sum total of less than $100.
Writing a book seemed too ambitious.