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Including the research and reading steps necesary to collect the data to aggregate in your books you write? You say you have read the 3 top books and several tech blogs <--- what are they? What main sources did you read to collect the data? Maybe you won't answer since all your business is based on that, finally :-).
i document more on these in twitter. :)
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working in church ministry i wonder how much time the OP actually commits to work. My guess is they think they works 40 hours a week but actually doesn't.
i make sure not to take a lot of time to write a book. I don't write everyday. Perhaps just 3-4 days in a week? And at most 45 min per day. whenever i am busy with church, family, i will put writing down. Won't ever compromise them. And, its just a hobby i enjoy doing.
Every tech job I've had here in SG expected full ownership of any and all IP created whilst an employee, no moonlighting, and always ended up consuming every waking second of my time anyway making the whole point moot.
Good on you for making it all balance and not only feeding your family but spending time with them too (which is bloody hard here).
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As a spare-time writer of (self-published) German science fiction novels[1], I believe I have something to say about that. I don't believe that what you say is true in general. For me writing is effortless and a lot of fun, and I believe that it is effortless for most writers who are far more successful than me. Stephen King could have never written so much so persistently without thoroughly enjoying it. If you don't…
> Stephen King could have never written so much so persistently without thoroughly enjoying it. And? I didn't claim that he claimed not to enjoy it, I claimed that he said it's a struggle to get into the groove.
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That dude is a machine. He wrote 4 secret novels during the pandemic on top of several regular ones.
I'm quite intrigued by his system of writing. It's nothing magical, he works on it hard and the process is roughly connecting various ideas together. He finds interesting ideas and write them down and then when the time is to go for a book, he tries to find ideas and concepts that work together. He then writes a rough outline of a book and then goes and fills in chapters after which he gets multiple reviews/revisions…
But many major authors produce a book every 1 to 5 to 10 years. Game of Thrones being the big example.
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i make sure not to take a lot of time to write a book. I don't write everyday. Perhaps just 3-4 days in a week? And at most 45 min per day. whenever i am busy with church, family, i will put writing down. Won't ever compromise them. And, its just a hobby i enjoy doing.
Ah - your day job isn't tech. Was wondering how you could get permission and time to do it. Every tech job I've had here in SG expected full ownership of any and all IP created whilst an employee, no moonlighting, and always ended up consuming every waking second of my time anyway making the whole point moot. Good on you for making it all balance and not only feeding your family but spending time with them too (which…
yea, if my day job was tech (it was previously), i would be so sick of it and wouldn't touch it when I got home. But now, i don't touch it in my day job and it suddenly becomes a pleasure to tinker with.
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I can see how you might think that, but I actually really like the $9 100 page booklet and if I want to go deep, having the 250-500-∞ page book is something I would be willing to pay for in addition to the $9, maybe off a discount, but I don't think it should matter. I'd kinda like to be able to pay twice as it were and get condensed versions of books I already have. I do understand that a shorter book might, and mos…
I will have to try it to believe it, but I agree there's a certain appeal to having a condensed version of the contents for less, so you can get the meat of the book, while you can get all the details and references and documentation etc. for the full price. What I won't buy though are the first 3-4 chapters of the book to be met with the "insert card for more".
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yes yes. i gave up hope on this article having submitted it months ago. just tried it again today and hack, it went up #1.
This is one of the ironies of HN to me. It can feel like “you’re keeping up with trends” by following HN regularly. And then you experience this (either firsthand or secondhand) and realize just how completely randomly arbitrary it is if your submission floats to the “top 30” or not. Which doesn’t mean it’s not still worthwhile reading (I still follow regularly), it’s just that it’s more like a daily fortune cookie t…
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It is though cause once it is published you get the income passively. However the topics of these books are perishable, so, have a end date
He has written 78 books - some of them make little to no money... or have stopped already. That's a lot of continuous work. The books are about current technologies that are bound to change, if the books are not updated/edited/etc. they are bound to stop making money as well. Anyways, writing that many book is not passive at any rate.