Writing a book in public
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Writing a book in public
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Re: Writing a book in public
#2Writing the book is the easy part. Getting more than a handful of people to read it is hard. Good luck!
Re: Writing a book in public
#3This is a full-time job, but it did not prevent me from writing at least 200 words daily for over a month now.
The author would be surprised to note that many people do that already via forum comments.
I practice my english this way and made it a part of my daily routine years ago.
Re: Writing a book in public
#4You'd have to take editing into account. By any reasonable account, I saw a page that discussed it once, to have 100 readable words, you'd need to write 500-1000 words. Which means the time required goes to 5-10x. On the other hand, 200 words per day is pretty low, you could easily get up to 500-1000 words per day once you really get going.
Re: Writing a book in public
#5You'd have to take editing into account. By any reasonable account, I saw a page that discussed it once, to have 100 readable words, you'd need to write 500-1000 words. Which means the time required goes to 5-10x. On the other hand, 200 words per day is pretty low, you could easily get up to 500-1000 words per day once you really get going.
Thanks for the insight!
Re: Writing a book in public
#6This is a full-time job, but it did not prevent me from writing at least 200 words daily for over a month now. The author would be surprised to note that many people do that already via forum comments. I practice my english this way and made it a part of my daily routine years ago.
Yeah. Do they publish comment books though?
Re: Writing a book in public
#7You'd have to take editing into account. By any reasonable account, I saw a page that discussed it once, to have 100 readable words, you'd need to write 500-1000 words. Which means the time required goes to 5-10x. On the other hand, 200 words per day is pretty low, you could easily get up to 500-1000 words per day once you really get going.
I think the idea behind the 200 words is that it is achieveable, once you hit the 200 you're already in the zone, the ball is rolling, you can easily continue. But getting there is the hard part.
Re: Writing a book in public
#8Writing the book is the easy part. Getting more than a handful of people to read it is hard. Good luck!
I'm 24 and this would be my first book. Let me learn my lessons. Thanks for the warning though!
Re: Writing a book in public
#9You'd have to take editing into account. By any reasonable account, I saw a page that discussed it once, to have 100 readable words, you'd need to write 500-1000 words. Which means the time required goes to 5-10x. On the other hand, 200 words per day is pretty low, you could easily get up to 500-1000 words per day once you really get going.
I think the idea behind the 200 words is that it is achieveable, once you hit the 200 you're already in the zone, the ball is rolling, you can easily continue. But getting there is the hard part.
Thank you! Exactly what I'm describing in the article: 200 words give you momentum. I end up with double this word count in average.
Re: Writing a book in public
#10Love the platform, how long have you been working on this?