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0 pointsMrPowers5y ago0 comments

They're my blog posts and that's a good point. I can generally write a blog post in a few hours.

Martin's book is clearly a masterpiece and mine isn't. Just though I'd chime in and let folks know that writing a book doesn't have to be a 2.5 year full-time commitment.

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ghaff5y ago

The first book I wrote incorporated a lot of existing blog posts. There was still a lot of glue to write, holes to patch, and various updates/fixups.

Another book was from scratch and I did spend a fair number of work hours on it--with the OK of management--supplemented by some (but not outrageous) nights and weekends. It probably ended up being like a part-time job for about 6 months plus additional time spent back and forth with the editor--which wasn't actually a lot.

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0 pointsMrPowers5y ago0 comments

They're my blog posts and that's a good point. I can generally write a blog post in a few hours.

Martin's book is clearly a masterpiece and mine isn't. Just though I'd chime in and let folks know that writing a book doesn't have to be a 2.5 year full-time commitment.

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ghaff5y ago

The first book I wrote incorporated a lot of existing blog posts. There was still a lot of glue to write, holes to patch, and various updates/fixups.

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