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Developers, Designers: Make an Infoproduct

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Re: Developers, Designers: Make an Infoproduct

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Anybody that thinks writing a book is easy is -crazy-. Okay, writing a -bad- book is easy. Writing a book that's worthwhile isn't.

Hi, I'm the author. I've written 3 full-length books, and half of one. Two of the completed ones were for actual publishers, and ended up canceled or not published or I quit in disgust. The last completed one was obviously http://jsrocks.com . But, I've written maybe 950 pages of book in my life so far. Writing a book is easy. Giving birth is also easy. Both may hurt like hell, but they're not difficult. You pretty m…

Simple to conceptualize and easy to do are not the same things.

Re: Developers, Designers: Make an Infoproduct

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I'm the author. I've written 3 full-length books, and half of one. Two of the completed ones were for actual publishers, and ended up canceled or not published or I quit in disgust. The last completed one was obviously http://jsrocks.com . But, I've written maybe 950 pages of book in my life so far. Writing a book is easy. Giving birth is also easy. Both may hurt like hell, but they're not difficult. You pretty m…

Simple to conceptualize and easy to do are not the same things.

If you sit down at your desk every day at a certain time, what part of writing is "hard"?
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