20 Minutes of Writing/Day = 330 Page Book in 3 Months – Hello Motivation!

Start today – I want to read your book!

Have you ever had the urge to write a book?

That deep desire to entertain, express yourself, teach something, or just prove to yourself you can do it?

Worried that you can’t do it or don’t have the time?

Yeah – if not, then you are a MUCH bigger and better person than I am!  In which case I would kindly ask that we be friends so you can whip me into shape! :)

The following realization about time related to writing really hit home with me.  See if does for you, too. My example here is for a book… hint, hint on future projects!

In Writing, The Importance of Commitment:

ASSUMPTIONS:

• Let’s assume you can type 60 words per minute or so.
• That would be roughly 320 words per page.
• Let’s choose to set a goal of 10 pages per chapter.
• Let’s also choose 33 chapters to flesh out a full book.

RESULTS:

• Your book will be 330 pages long.
• Which is about 105,600 words total.
• This whole book would take about 1,760 minutes to write.
• That’s 29 hours.
• Which is 88 individual 20 minute chunks of writing or roughly 4 pages per sitting.

REFLECTION:

• So if I only did 1, 5-minute-chunk per day (a single page), I’d have a full book done in less than a year.
• Or: 3 months to a new book @ 20 minutes of writing per day. (my ideal choice or maybe twice this on ambitious days)
• But if I was feeling REALLY gung-ho:  30 days to a new book @ 1 hour per day.

FINAL WORD:

My only question for me (and you!) is… why the heck haven’t I (you!) started??!??!?!?