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So You Want to Write a Book?

Here are all the reasons you shouldn't and only one you should

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Lore Wilbert
Sep 22, 2023
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One of the hardest parts of writing a book (for me) is resisting the urge to give all the good stuff away now. From proposal to publication is usually around a two year time length, which means that if one (I) gets hyper-fixated on the subject about which they’re writing, it's difficult to hold back all the glorious information and wonder they’re behold…

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