Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

In other words, the hack writes hierarchically. He writes what he imagines will play well in the eyes of others. He does not ask himself, What do I myself want to write? What do I think is important? Instead he asks, What’s hot, what can I make a deal for?

“writing a book” is actually about writing a pleasure-giver, and is at best irrelevant and often harmful when applied to a problem-solver. So let’s set aside that faulty intuition and start with what matters most: your book’s promise to its reader.

Most authors try to combine everything they know into one book because they think they don’t have enough information for one book. They’re insecure about the book and try to compensate by cramming it with everything possible.

WHAT I KNOW There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.