" Wri ting is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words ." - Mark Twain The hardest thing about writing a book is that it is not published. It's the actual writing. In this article, I offer 10 steps for writing a book. As an author, I can tell you without hesitation that the hardest part of a writer's job is to sit down to do the job. After all, books don't just write themselves. You must invest everything possible to create an important piece of work. For years I dreamed of becoming a professional writer. I thought I had important things to say that the world needed to hear. But when I look back at what it really takes to become an author, I realize how different the process was from what I expected. For one thing, you don't just sit down and write a book. That's not how writing works. You write a sentence, then a paragraph, and maybe, if you're lucky, an entire chapter. The writing is done in fits and starts, with bits and pieces. It
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