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I expected to take 900 minutes - 30 days x 30 minutes per day - to write my book. Name TBC, by the way, ‘Bidding for Beginners’ limited the target market.

Instead it took 1170 minutes to produce the initial draft of just under 30,000 words. That’s 39 days.

Not bad, I thought.

Then I started editing it.

I’m still tracking my time and taking 30 minutes a day to edit this monster, and I this morning I made the mistake of chucking some of the content into Hemingway.

That granted me a poor score and highlighted most of the content that needed fixing - and that was just a small portion of a single page.

To add insult to injury, at some point in my writing journey I veered off the rails and forgot about my target audience and my desired approach, and the thing turned into a corporate training guide. So I have a lot of rewriting to do.

But - my first pass is consistency. Making content work with my intended audience and goal, and making sure all the words are in the right place and mean the same thing.

After that, draft two will be for simplicity. I suspect that will involve a greater number of bullet points and headings than my original draft allowed for.

All the people who say on twitter that writing a book in 48 hours is easy are bloody deluded. This shit is hard.

Never mind, trucking on, and moaning about it in here from time to time.