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…
Organizing an 80,000 word book: my current process and thoughts
May 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments
What would make this book unique?
April 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A friend asked a very good question: how will my book be different from the other productivity books on the market?
My intent is to provide tips that cover a wide range of emotionally-powerful issues that have simple, behavioral solutions that impact people’s feelings of happiness and success. To me, the point is to live a [...]
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Organization: by problem
April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Between the tweets, the comments here, and the e-mail I’ve received, I’m moving ahead organizing by problem. The working idea is:
A chapter discussing and framing the problem/opportunity of productivity.
A chapter introducing several high-level tools and concepts.
Then several chapters that take a large problem and give tips to address different aspects. For example: beating procrastination, keeping [...]
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How should the book be organized?
April 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments
How should the book be organized? My goals:
Casual browsers should be able to pick up and find something useful.
Keep people reading.
Be intriguing enough that Ellen, Oprah, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry King, the Today Show, etc. are fighting over who gets to interview me first.
Organize by bio
Come meet Stever. My background is a tad [...]
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