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    How to Write a Book: An 11-Step Process to Build Habits, Stop Procrastinating, Fuel Self-Motivation, Quiet Your Inner Critic, Bust Through Writer's Block, & Let Your Creative Juices Flow (Short Read)
    How to Write a Book: An 11-Step Process to Build Habits, Stop Procrastinating, Fuel Self-Motivation, Quiet Your Inner Critic, Bust Through Writer's Block, & Let Your Creative Juices Flow (Short Read)
    How to Write a Book: An 11-Step Process to Build Habits, Stop Procrastinating, Fuel Self-Motivation, Quiet Your Inner Critic, Bust Through Writer's Block, & Let Your Creative Juices Flow (Short Read)
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    How to Write a Book: An 11-Step Process to Build Habits, Stop Procrastinating, Fuel Self-Motivation, Quiet Your Inner Critic, Bust Through Writer's Block, & Let Your Creative Juices Flow (Short Read)

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    Have you thought about writing a book? Do you just not know where to begin? Do you get writer's block just thinking about writing a book?
    Best-selling non-fiction author David Kadavy shares his simple process for writing a book. Build confidence, ditch your inner critic, and finally write your book with simple habits you can start today.
    You can read this short read (~7,000 words) in about 30 minutes, so it won't get in the way of the one thing standing between you and your book: Action!
    Download today and make the book you've dreamed of a reality.
    Now includes a free sample chapter of David Kadavy's latest book, The Heart to Start.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKadavy, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 20, 2018

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    • 5/5
      Nice simple book to read. Thanks for the helpful tips. I had to avoid the "in-book" advertising of the podcasts and other writings because it would've been too distracting and I would not have finished the book and gotten the desired knowledge. That part also felt too "salesy".
      I will be using this help for my own project.
      Thanks again!

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    How to Write a Book - David Kadavy

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    I recently redesigned my life to make writing my top priority. As a result, I quadrupled my writing output. If you’d like to learn what tools I rely on, and get further updates from me, please visit kadavy.net/wabtools

    How to Write a Book

    An 11-Step Process to Build Habits, Stop Procrastinating, Fuel Self-Motivation, Quiet Your Inner Critic, Bust Through Writer’s Block, & Let Your Creative Juices Flow

    A Short Read

    by David Kadavy

    I never thought I’d write one book, let alone two. I’m not one of those authors who spent his entire childhood loving to write. I became a writer by accident. If you’re wondering how to write a book, the following is what I would suggest.

    I’m writing from the perspective of a non-fiction author, but much of what I’ll write could be applied to fiction as well. This is not exactly how I did it, but this is how I would do it if I were starting over from scratch. It would have saved me years of struggle in my ten years as an independent creator.

    Shedding false beliefs about how to write a book

    The first step to writing a book is to shed false beliefs about how to write a book. Books can be mysterious. If you haven’t written a book, it can be hard to understand what goes into writing a book.

    If you don’t even personally know an author, books can be even more mysterious. Growing up in a middle-class cul-de-sac in Nebraska, I didn’t know authors. I hardly understood that books were created by flesh-and-blood people like myself.

    It turns out that writing a book is both harder than I could have imagined, and easier than I could have imagined. It’s hard because it takes an amount of dedication that few people put into anything. It’s easy because when you get down to it, writing a book is just putting your butt in a chair and laying down words.

    False belief #1

    Writing is always hard.

    Writing a book is indeed hard work, and it’s not for everyone. This is why you should be honest with yourself about whether you truly want to go through the work of writing a book. There are other ways to author a book, such as Book in a Box.

    If you’re up for it, know that writing is not always hard. If you don’t have much experience writing, chances are it’s hard to string together 250 well-written

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