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How To Write 12 Books This Year
I am taking on James Altucher’s challenge
Ok, James. I hear you.
James Altucher, one of the funniest (and most insightful) modern writers out there, wrote this post.
The idea is simple: you can write 12 books in 12 months if you make list-books (i.e., 101 Simple Ways To Beat Your Friends At Monopoly Game).
While I don’t want to write a listicle book, it gave me an idea. A crazy idea.
Write 12 books this year anyway.
How can you write 12 books in a year?
Easily. Stop obsessing over the word ‘book.’
We were fed this lie for too long. The traditional way of thinking is that a ‘book’ is something super-serious, and it has to be 60,000–120,000 words. Otherwise, it’s not a real book.
Like a famous guest on the Tim Ferriss podcast once said:
If you write a book, write a FUCKING book.
But the modern world, the Internet, and Amazon changed that. Now, you can self-publish. You can have 100% control of your marketing, royalties, revenue, and (oh my!) just write.
We (creatives) used to have to do too much bullshit in the past. Today, you can…
