I’m now late on finishing the first draft of the book, and I’m appalled at how far I have left to go. I based my estimations of how fast I could write on various client writing and things I’d done recently. The book is totally trashing those numbers.
One of the biggest problems seems to be [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Writing'
Writing is hard hard hard hard hard!
September 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments
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Does humor work in large doses?
July 17th, 2008 · 19 Comments
Quick question… In my podcast, I use a lot of humor. The humor is almost always tangential to the actual point. After all, how funny are file folders? Not very. But file folders being used as emergency underwear? Er, hilarious.
Work Less and Do More is shaping up to be a book of a great many [...]
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Organizing an 80,000 word book: my current process and thoughts
May 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments
An 80,000-book is very different to write than a 900-word podcast. It’s been a challenge to wrap my head around lots of specific tips and tie them together coherently. Here are the tools and my current conception of how I’m going to organize the book. Hope it works…