How hard is it really to write a book?
Becoming an author is possible if you have something to say and a clear process to write your manuscript. Here’s the process.
Note: This article is based on the transcript of Episode 1 of The Solo Author Podcast. Subscribe to the podcast to learn how to become a legendary author.
When I was 15, I decided to write a book. So during 2 years (on and off) I scribbled a story with blue pen on a couple of notebooks I bought just for that purpose.
It was a novel, part adventure, part romance with a tragic ending involving drug lords, a kidnapped young woman, a boat in the Amazon river and some Indians shooting arrows.
It remains, thankfully, unpublished.
Honestly, it wasn’t very good. But it was my first try and I wrote the whole darn thing. At 15.
So if a clueless teenager was able to write a full manuscript , can it really that hard to write a book? Apparently, for most folks, it is.
81% of Americans feel that they have a book in them and should write it. That’s about 266 million people. But very few will even attempt it. Of those who take the plunge and start writing, only 3% will actually finish it. And only 20% of that 3% who finish the book…
