Many people would like to write a book, but either they don’t know how to start or the finish is seen as an impossible dream. Actually, the start is easy, and the finish doesn’t have to be that hard.
Remember Aesop’s fable of the turtle and rabbit? The turtle won the race because of pace and persistence. The rabbit lost when intermittent flashes of brilliance were interrupted by too many distractions.
Let’s do some simple math: A double-spaced typed page contains about 250 words and is roughly equal to a single-spaced page in a 5 x 8 book. Are you capable of writing 250 words in a day? Just writing on weekdays and with two weeks off for vacation, that adds up to 250 pages of 62,500 words in a year—more than enough for a book.
Some writers have been working on their book for decades. Why? Perhaps they’ve been like the rabbit, running with spurts of inspiration that haven’t been enough to reach the finish line.
Just 250 words in a week would finish a book in five years. Anybody can do that, provided they run like the turtle, with pace and persistence.
