Remember how I wrote a book?

This is all of the languages.

It's been published in so far.

That's the coolest thing I own.

That book will, at some point in the future, have a sequel, and I have been working on that.

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So I've been thinking about writing a lot lately.

This is made me realize that there are a number of things that I wish that I had known about writing when I was writing.

My first plus, of course, isn't going to be applicability everybody, but I figured I'd share with the help of some questions I got on Twitter.

They never want characters versus plot.

I started with plot, and I thought that plot was going to carry me through the whole process.

I was super wrong.

I couldn't even really get deep into the book until I cared about the characters really deeply.

I had to love them like friends in order to have the motivation to finish telling their stories.

So like as far as writing motivation goes, my like, biggest tip is fall in love with your characters, that's all.

That's the only thing that kept me going.

Number two Writing schedules are not a thing that I have.

Sometimes I'm pretty busy sometimes I'm not.

Sometimes I'm sick, but if I do not write at least 1000 words a week, the story leaves my brain.

I no longer think about it in the shower when I'm taking the wall and starting back up again becomes the whole process for me.

1000 words.

It's like one or two hours of writing time.

And if I don't make that time, I'm not read in the book anymore.

And I might not right again for months.

The number three also regarding the actual physical process of writing.

Not all writing is writing, thinking, staring, researching, stressing, reading other people's books, reading your own book again, reading stuff that you've already written.

All that stuff is right.

If you're super focused on word count, you'll have more words.

If you're super focused on story, you'll have more stories in number four.

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Nothing but Time writes a book.

I don't know how I didn't know this, but it takes hundreds of hours, at least, and so if you don't spend the time, it doesn't get done.

Thing Number five plotting for me is a process of constant Rhett Khan.

I don't know how other people do it, but I'm writing.

And then I realized that something earlier in the story doesn't make sense or isn't necessary or is too loose.

And then the first book, I would go back and fix that, which was terrible on because, like, I might get further in the story and then have to go back and fix that exact same thing again.

Takes 1000 years to look it up and fix it.

It takes you out of your flow.

So the second book, I just created it.

Ah, folder and my project file.

And it's called things to change and it just full of stuff I need to change so that I don't miss it In revision thing number six, the characters have to be in control if I'm controlling them than they aren't really.

And they're not gonna feel real thing number 70 my God.

Why didn't I know this?

You don't have to write linear.

Least I'm around.

If I'm excited about a scene, I go on.

I write that scene and doesn't matter if it's gonna take place like the last quarter of the book, and I'm in the first quarter when I eventually filling all the gaps like there's definitely gonna be things that I have to change about that seat.

But also, everything that I've written up to that point is gonna mesh better with that final destination and even more importantly, sometimes a scene you're really excited about.

They're big scenes, they're important scenes.

They turn out that they don't work.

And like then, if you write up all the way to that scene just to get to that scene and it doesn't work, it's a disaster for me.

It's been really good to know if my important scenes are actually gonna work before I get to finally thing Number eight.

I have expertise is and passions of things that I love and that I care about and then I know about.

I've written like 1000 non fiction video essay is kind of an expert on social media.

I don't know how I hadn't figured this out, but, like using my expertise is, and my passions has been deeply enabling, and all of my early failed attempts at other books was because I wasn't doing that.

So, John, thank you for the years of practice here.

And if I could give you any advice, it's apparently right.

A soccer novel.

I'll see you on Tuesday.

I don't have any news regarding this equal right now, but I am working on it.

If you want to hear me talk more about writing, I have a very long video over on Hank's January.

Answer.

Many more questions that I was sent on Twitter, and also the book boxes from Life's library actually make more of those than we're probably gonna need, just in case anybody needs some replacements.

But we're releasing a bunch of those on discount at d of t b a dot com If you want to check that out.