Writing a book
I'm getting more and more questions and advice on how to write a book, but I'm sensing a discrepancy in the meaning of the phrase "write a book". I think people agree with the idea that it is not possible to output something that is 100% complete from the beginning, but I think they still have the image of "output something that is about 95% complete, review it a little bit at 5%, and it's done.
Only writings of a somewhat smaller scale can do that.
Either it's just enough to hold the whole picture in your brain, or it's a lot of it, but the content is skimpy.
Books are the most cognitively burdensome part of the process, where you have to design a structure that is integrated as a whole, based on the premise that the brain cannot hold the entire detailed picture.
However, I may be setting the bar too high, as there are many books out there that are like baby food, just pouring unstructured, ground-up information into one's mouth.
I personally think that such books are not worth the effort because they are less labor intensive to write, but they are also faster obsolescence, so they are not worth the effort. ---
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