A&B #74

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📚 Book Lessons:

This week's book is How To Write A Book by David Kadavy.It's a super short book (48 pages) with several great lessons on how to write a non-fiction book. You'll learn how to develop a writing habit, ditch your inner critic, outline your book, and much more. Here are 3 lessons from it:1) Aim For 100 Words A DayWriting a book in one sitting is impossible. But what is possible (and much more manageable), is writing 100 words a day until you've written a book.Why only 100 words? Because you want to make your writing goal so small that it's super easy to start and very difficult to make an excuse for not doing it. If you pass your daily word count, that's great, keep going if you'd like. Over time, your writing habit will get stronger and you'll soon find yourself writing 250, 500, or even 1,000 words per day. So start small and start today.2) Always Remember The First Draft Is Not The LastWhen writing a book, there's a temptation to make every line be perfect.But this mindset of perfection will have you rewriting the same first sentence over and over again for hours instead of continuing with the rest of the book. Instead, you want to get comfortable with writing poorly.It can be paralyzing trying to make every word perfect because your inner critic will laugh at your rough draft, but by telling yourself you can always improve the draft later, you'll put a stop to that inner voice and perfection paralysis, and get one step closer to completing your book.So keep this mantra in mind while writing your book: "I can always improve this later."3) Don't Write While You Edit (or vice versa)Writing and editing are two different tasks and should be treated as such.The goal of writing is to add words whereas the goal of editing is to subtract them. Because of this, you don't want to go back and forth between writing and editing. Instead, you want to write out your first draft, let it sit for a while, and then go through and edit it.The longer you step away from the first draft of your book, the more clearly you'll see it when you revisit it. The legendary writer Stephen King encouraged fiction authors to wait six weeks before editing their drafts. So take some time off after finishing your book. Doing so will help you edit it with a fresh perspective and your piece will be much better because of it.

✅ Actionable Advice:

1) Set a goal to write 100 words a day:

• Writing 100 words a day is a small enough task that it's easy to do even if you have an incredibly busy life.

• It's also so small that it's hard to make an excuse not to do it.

2) Always remember the first draft isn't the last:

• Stop worrying about the fact that every sentence isn't perfect.

• Your first draft will likely be bad but that's okay, you can fix it later.

• Keep this mantra in mind: "I can always improve this later."

3) Don't write while you edit (or vice versa):

• Write your first draft then let it sit for a few weeks so you can revisit it with fresh eyes later.

• Then go and edit it.

🎧 Podcast Update:

No new podcast since I have a lot of projects in the air right now.However, I've been working on uploading more content to YouTube.Check out my channel and subscribe here!

📖 Reading Lesson:

⭐️ Weekly Quote:A cold truth to remember:Buying books and reading them are two different hobbies.(source)

Thank you for your support everyone, I'll see you next Sunday!Read on,Alex W.