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This is Why You’re Not Finishing Your Book
You have a big dream, but it’s missing a critical component for success. Here’s how to fix that.
You’ve been working on this book for a long time. It’s one of the best things you have ever written in your life. Now, you want to share it with people.
You show it to some friends, and they are ecstatic! They love it, and they want more. It’s a dream come true, right?
Well, then they ask the question you’ve been dreading:
When is it coming out?
You don’t have a good answer.
You haven’t chosen a release date yet because you don’t feel the book is ready. You haven’t thought it’s ready for years now. Moreover, you’ve been editing it and maybe in some cases even hadn’t finished it.
You wrote a lot but didn’t bring it to a conclusion.
Whatever the reason — you think you have all the time in the world.
Let me correct you: You don’t. In fact, you probably want to release that book sooner rather than later because we tend to think about similar things. A different person with a similar idea might beat you to it if they have more agency than you do, and they make it before you.
