I challenged a client a few weeks back: “Let’s write a book!” She writes her book. I write mine. We set a date to have it done by. These are short books, probably 15,000 – 20,000 words. We’d both been thinking about writing a book for months. This friendly challenge gave us both the kick in the ass to finally sit down and write. First draft is due a week from today. Winner gets to talk trash. I spent all morning working on it. Well, kinda… What I really did was dig through years of old emails, random Google Docs, and old long forms on Threads. As it turns out, I’ve already written most of it. It’s just not in order. Or in one place. Or any sort of logic where someone could read it without a map and a bottle of Jack Daniels. The challenge for me isn’t writing it…it’s assembling all the pieces together. It’s kinda like building a piece of IKEA furniture, blind-folded, with 79 extra screws and no instructions. All those scattered pieces? They still matter. The late night “notes to self” in Notion, or the emails written on a Google Doc, but never sent, and the posts that flopped, but got one DM from someone saying, “I needed this today”. It’s all part of the story. I wrote, or assembled, 4,500 words so far. I find many creators vastly underestimate how much they’ve already done. I’m willing to bet, you’re sitting on gold, Reader. However, it’s not “pretty & polished”, so you think it’s not valuable. Most of us do NOT need to “start fresh” or “start over” or “pivot”. We just need to stitch together what we’re already lived and learned. That’s where the magic is. YOU GOT THIS 🙌 In your corner, P.S. The 1st draft is due next Tuesday. Not sure on the official launch (or name of the book), but it’ll likely be later this month.​ |
