The Best Way to Start Writing a Book

It’s hard to sit there and write a book. Someone should write a book about how hard it is. July 30, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] “It’s hard to sit there and write a book. Someone should write a book about how hard it is.” [Enable Images To See More] The Best Way to Start Writing a Book By James Altucher Double your money on a one-minute trade — every day? [Please Enable Images]( scoff. If [this new profit system]( performs the way our exhaustive back-testing suggests it could… [These one-minute daily trades]( could not only double your money… But even score you as much as 47 times your money in rare instances. The key is[a little-known pattern]( in the price action of certain stocks… And an under-used moneymaking technique I call “zoom trading.” We promise: You’ve never seen big, fast profit opportunities like this before. To get the full details — with no risk or obligation — [click here.]( I get asked this every day so here is my answer as to how I do it after 20-something books (and counting). I’ll start here: I have a problem. For instance, once I asked my then-15-year-old daughter what she was learning in school. She told me that in math she was learning about how to find the volume of a cone. I thought to myself: Hmmm, if I’m ever an Ice Cream Man (I capitalized it because I sort of feel like “the Ice Cream Man” was a superhero to me when I was a little kid)… and some little kid asks me, “Can I please have a 0.33 liter vanilla ice cream cone?” how am I going to figure out how much to put in that cone? How will I do it? Do I need a refresher course? So I asked my kid what she was learning in a course called “global.” I’m not sure what a course called “global” is about but I’m afraid to ask because I think I’ve asked it 100 times before. She told me she had a special project. She had to write about what she learned from all the homework they’d done that year. “So…” I said, “you have homework now ABOUT your homework.” “Yes.” “Well, what about science? What are you learning there?” “We’re learning about acids and bases.” “That’s good. Stay away from acids because you can burn yourself.” She said, “Well actually you can burn yourself from bases, also.” I did not know that. My problem is that I’ve learned a lot in life. I’ve learned about how to deal with people, how to have ideas, how to be creative, how to be healthy, how to sell, how to negotiate, how to know who is good for me to be around and what sort of people I should avoid. And, even given that I know these things, it’s still hard for me to live a steadily improving life. Life is difficult, it’s really hard to survive every day. It’s hard to make decisions. We constantly have harder problems as we age. So the problem is: my 15-year-old was learning NONE of that. No kid will ever need to learn how to find the volume of a cone for the rest of their lives. No kid will ever need to know what a base is unless they are the one kid out of 100,000 that becomes a nuclear chemist. That’s my problem: how to educate kids better. (Yes, this will get to writing a book.) I just told the beginning of a story of why I think this is important. I can flesh out this story a bit more: - Income for young people ages 18–35 has been going down for the past 25 years. - Most jobs created are part-time jobs or jobs for companies of fewer than 10 people. - Student loan debt is higher than ever at almost $2 TRILLION that our kids have to pay back. - Income inequality at the workplace is higher than ever. And so on. Lots of problems combined with the fact that kids are learning the wrong things and successful people eventually learn the right things. So I just told a story and I mixed in some hard truths about that story. Now I can make a list. Here are the things people need to learn at a young age in order to be successful: - Health - Creativity - Emotional connection - Communication skills - Negotiation And on and on — each skill more difficult to learn than the last. As I was learning each of the things on my list, I experienced a lot of pain and horror. For instance, I used to eat horribly. So I would get heavier, I’d get more and more sick, and I wouldn’t have energy for the next day. I had to solve these problems along the way toward health. Is it about food? About sleep or exercise? How much? And so on. I had to learn all of these things through experience. The same with negotiation. I sold a product and maybe I underpriced myself. Or maybe I made a bad deal and got screwed over later. I had problems. Nobody comes down from the sky and knows the answer to these things. For each thing I learned I had problems, I solved them, and then I can tell the many ways I solved them. And finally it all clicked together and I made a little something of my life. But I’m still constantly improving. THE END. What does this have to do with writing a book? Everything. Because this is the key to writing a book: The Last Laugh: Why this NYC comedy club owner is laughing all the way to the bank… [Please Enable Images]( in on comedy, former hedge fund manager and Wall Street insider James Altucher says the income secrets he used to purchase his dream business are no laughing matter… Today, he pulls back the curtain and shows how it’s possible to start earning $1,500… $3,500… even as much as $10,000 a month working from your own home. In fact, he has over 177 little-known income secrets you can use to change your life starting today… [Watch this video to find out more now >>]( A) HAVE A PROBLEM. If it’s a nonfiction book, then either you have a problem or some historical figure has a problem. Somebody WANTS something, and explains why they want it and why it’s important. The “want” is high stakes. The higher the better. If it’s fiction then… SAME THING… the main character has a problem. Luke Skywalker wanted to explore the universe. His uncle wouldn’t let him. Then stormtroopers killed his uncle and Obi-Wan Kenobi told him he needed to learn the Force to save the princess. He had some big problems and he got the first steps on how to solve them. B) HAVE A LIST TO SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. Make a list. By the way, your list needs to be unique. The way you make your list unique is to include stories about yourself. I just made you a little list about education above. Luke Skywalker’s list might look like: Find a pilot, avoid getting caught by stormtroopers, protect R2D2, learn more about the Force, shut down the force field on the Death Star, save the princess, destroy the Death Star. Note that his problems got more and more difficult. As a person (character) goes from reluctant amateur to hero, his or her problems get more and more difficult. Each item on the list is a chapter. And in each chapter, there is a story that works the same way as the book: The character has a problem, has some ways to solve it, solves it, moves forward. C) PROBLEMS GET SOLVED BY THE END. MAYBE. Or… mostly. I was going to say “learn something” by the end. And that’s true. But learning is not a requirement. Solving lots of problems is. Start with all of that. Then: Every day write down 1,000 awful words about it. Just the worst words you can think of. Write down nonsense if it helps. But every day write 1,000 nonsense words. Why nonsense? Because every first draft is horrible. 100% of them. Sometimes people publish their first drafts. One out of 1,000 of those are OK. But it’s also OK to rewrite 10 or 20 times. I’d say on average I’ve rewritten my books 10 or 20 times each. But I write 1,000 words a day. I write 1,000 horrible, crappy words. And then I rewrite. And I write more. And I have more problems. 1,000 words a day is 365,000 words a year. That’s like 6–8 books a year. With rewriting you can do 1–2 books a year easily. Because it’s hard to sit there and write a book. Really really hard. Someone should write a book about how hard it is. I can make a list about that, too. And that’s how you write a book. Good luck, my friend. Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher P.S. A friend of mine, Graham Summers, is helping regular folks learn how to potentially profit week after week… by exploiting a massive flaw in the way he believes central banks do business. This opportunity is EPIC, and I can’t believe that I just found out about it. I recorded a quick 2-minute video clip explaining Graham does with this strategy. The video is set to be taken down Sunday at midnight. I don’t want you to miss this! 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