Beginning next week or so I'm going to be helping a friend of mine market his soon to be released book. It's largely autobiographical and discusses his investment strategy in going from $20K to $2 Million in 3 years. I can't say the title yet, but I will when the time is right. So, in reading the book and in having a vague idea of the effort that goes into writing a book, I can't help but being just as impressed with the fact that he wrote a book that is about to be published by a major publisher as I am with the fact that he turned $20K to $2 Million during the peak years of the financial collapse.
The only other time I've had a friend write and publish a book, it was a couple years after he had returned from Iraq and by then he had already started a 527 and made several TV appearances, so it just kind of seemed like publishing book was par for the course. Here's a link to that book. It's good.
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Ghosts...012904-2019260
Has anyone here written a book? How did you feel when you finished ? Was it more like elation or relief?
I just asked my friend and he said this upcoming book is about 60,000 words and that he worked on it for 8 hours per day over the course of seven months.
To put that in perspective, I did an SEO overhaul of my site in June and made a spreadsheet to help in tracking keyword density and various other things. The number count for pages, just pages not posts, are somewhat comparable
269 Pages
52,177 Words
194 Words/Page
That also includes titles and anchor text, so you'd have to take 10-20% off to compare apples to apples, but I can only imagine how difficult it would be to be put all that focus on one book.
Anyway, that's it. Just felt like rambling.
The only other time I've had a friend write and publish a book, it was a couple years after he had returned from Iraq and by then he had already started a 527 and made several TV appearances, so it just kind of seemed like publishing book was par for the course. Here's a link to that book. It's good.
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Ghosts...012904-2019260
Has anyone here written a book? How did you feel when you finished ? Was it more like elation or relief?
I just asked my friend and he said this upcoming book is about 60,000 words and that he worked on it for 8 hours per day over the course of seven months.
To put that in perspective, I did an SEO overhaul of my site in June and made a spreadsheet to help in tracking keyword density and various other things. The number count for pages, just pages not posts, are somewhat comparable
269 Pages
52,177 Words
194 Words/Page
That also includes titles and anchor text, so you'd have to take 10-20% off to compare apples to apples, but I can only imagine how difficult it would be to be put all that focus on one book.
Anyway, that's it. Just felt like rambling.
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