write a book Tag

My German book was recently published. Delayed almost two years in finalizing it. The reason for this is very simple. She always spent time with him on Saturdays before the rest of the family woke up. This gave me between 60-90 minutes of time to make progress. It wasn’t a lot of time that I could dedicate to it, but since I did it continuously, in the end, it was handed over to me.

With the Amazon book I don’t have so much time anymore. The delivery date is the end of April and if you look at the calendar you will see that there is not much left. It’s a matter of putting my batteries. The good thing is that I’m already on a good path. So I am achieving it.

Delegating jobs to my team

There are little things that can steal your time. In my case it is the search and creation of images. I am making a book about Amazon that is very detailed in some parts where the reader receives step-by-step instructions. I can delegate part of this work to my team, which in this way allows me to focus on writing and not waste time with images.

Advance through chapters

When you write a book, the process is important in a sense. I have created an index where I mark in green the finished chapters, in yellow those that are in progress and in white those that I have not yet played. When I have everything in green I will have finished. Also the fact of not putting everything in a document allows me to have it better structured. When I’m done the tender thing to put it all together but until then I can move faster I don’t go through hundreds of pages because every time I want to write in the book.

Adapt the index continuously

At first this was expressed in an amplification. You write one thing and you realize that this other thing is missing. When you are in the last meters and you want to finish, you prioritize and even eliminate chapters that you had added in an initial phase. It is important to get to the point of delivery of the sketch. I have eleven days to do it.

Add wording blocks to finish

Right now I’m at 80% completion. It is always usually necessary according to the Pareto law always more time. To reduce this time as much as possible I am going to focus on finishing and not be too perfectionist in these last meters. Apart from Saturday I have to add writing blocks between weeks. Otherwise, it will be impossible to finish. Hopefully this week and next I can find time (and no luck too).

You will see that as almost always there is no magic trick to finish. What you can still get out of here is that if you can, it doesn’t hurt to have an assistant to carry out research and/or image creation tasks for you. He can even write rough paragraphs that you then give him training. Let’s see how this final sprint goes.

Stay tuned.