Nicolas Cole says 80% of a nonfiction book's value comes from the outline and positioning, not the writing itself. Start there, nail the framework, and the prose follows faster and better.
Where I've seen the most growth in my own ability to write books is to move away from starting in the sentences and in the paragraphs and in the prose, and instead starting much more high level in the positioning and in the outline. That is where 80% of the value gets decided, and the writing is really just expanding on the decisions that you make high level. And as I've refined and improved this framework for myself, this has led to not just the ability to write books much faster, but actually produce much more high quality end products. Tax.
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