Two writers compare approaches: finishing a book in private before publishing versus releasing work publicly in pieces and iterating based on feedback. One shares how he turned blog posts into books by publishing chapters as he wrote them, letting the audience shape what comes next.
My idea of writing a book is, you know, me sequestered in a room typing away and then it's done and I maybe get beta testers. Like to me that would be shipping before it's ready. But as I'm listening to you, a thought popped into my head that maybe dripping it or, or teasers, I suppose, like bits here and there of what I've written to see if people are engaging with it or if there's like actually the audience that I think So that's some thoughts that I think I'm going to challenge myself to do, because it would be a challenge. I would love to just sit in a room and write, write it all and then ship it away and be done with it. That's my introverted way of writing a book. But I think for the book's sake, it would be better to let my audience know in advance that it's happening. This is what parts of it are going to look like or could possibly look like. And then that if I do strip out a piece and turn around in a month and don't like it, it's— I'm not like writing it in blood, you know, it's not there forever. It's everything's subject to change.
Yeah. I've, I've written several books that have literally been blog, blog my way to a book where I blogged chapter by chapter, and sometimes just blogging a bunch of random ideas that turn into a book because I find the connect the dots after the dots are already kind of out there.
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