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Is it Time to Write a Book?
Taking the next step as a writer
I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately, but blogging feels a little crowded. I can write and release a story every day, but other writers release stories 2–5 times a day. I don’t see the same returns that I did a year ago.
But I want to make money. Sure, I could just pick up shifts at my part time job, forever. But to be honest, I’m sick of working hard to make someone else rich. I want to launch my writing career, and really give it some momentum.
Writing a nonfiction book would be a great way to supplement my blogging and gain new readers. Many people don’t want to get a subscription to websites like Medium or Patreon, but they will buy a book.
What would I write about? For a long time I’ve thought about writing a book about minimalism, but I don’t think that would be interesting to everybody.
There’s plenty of science and health projects I could write about, but what exactly would I focus on?
I could write a book about writing, but I feel that’s been done before, too, and I don’t have too much to add. The landscape of writing and publishing has been changing so rapidly, too, that I’m not sure books on writing can always keep up.
