7 Lessons Learnt By Writing And Publishing an eBook In One Week

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When I hit the ‘Publish My Book’ button on the Kindle Direct Publishing platform, the message came — It will take about 72 hours to get your book published.

It took them less than seven hours.

When I woke up this morning, an email was waiting for me.

To say that I was overwhelmed would be an understatement.

After a night’s sleep, the enormity of what I had achieved in one week dawned on me.

Just last week, I was at Point A (I want to write a book.)

Today I was at Point B (I have written a book.)

In a week, I have achieved one of my biggest dreams.

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This project was an experiment. I got more out of it than just a book.

Here are seven lessons I learned from it.

Nothing beats “learning by doing.”