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My One-Year Journey in Writing My First Ever Book

Richard Fang
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6 min readJul 13, 2023

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Before I start, I wanted to say this isn’t your typical book.

It’s not a 200-page+ book about a non-fiction lesson or fantasy story. It’s not even a memoir or a biography.

It’s an activity book that is aimed at dog lovers. It’s still over 100+ pages and still took a long ass time to write (check out our pre-launch page if you’d like to sign up for our launch date + giveaway date).

I’ve always wanted to write a book though

I realized many years ago that I wanted to build a bucket list of things I wanted to achieve in my working career.

I mean, how cool would it be to add ‘author’ in one of my tags on my website?

Jokes aside, I thought writing up a book would always be something that would be part of my ‘bucket list’ of things to do in life.

Although I did want to write a fiction book, I settled on producing any type of book from scratch, no matter the content and the main goal was to print it and hold it in my hand.

I came up with an activity book idea

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