546 - How to write a book in 30 days

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Any one can write a book. And publish it. You don’t need a publisher. Or any gatekeeper to approve. You just need your own permission. And then you can do it yourself. So in this podcast, I walk you through how to pick your topic, how to find a unique angle to write about, how to outline your chapter, and so on. Think of this episode as a ready, fire, aim approach to writing and workshopping your own book in just 30 days flat. And! If you really want to hear how successful someone can be with self-publishing their own book, go look at my friend Kamal Ravikant. He published a short book, 50 pages or so. And still makes money off of it today. It's just passive income. And he felt good writing it. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:09.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.5	Let's say you want to write a book in the next 30 days.
0:19.9	So like there's all these like guide books.
0:21.6	I feel like all these thousand year old stories, they fall into two categories.
0:25.0	One is sort of the listicle of how to behave and the other is kind of the story.
0:28.6	The story of Jesus, the story of Krishna, the story of Buddha.
0:32.0	So all of those are kind of, you know, these seminal stories,
0:36.4	these archetypical stories that you could write a novel around.
0:40.0	Or these guides to living that Buddha, Jesus, you know, Muhammad,
0:45.2	Lao Tzu, whoever came up with, you could write like the Tao of cybersecurity
0:49.5	or the Tao of parenting or the Tao of whatever.
0:52.3	Oh, I was going to write the Tao of comedy.
0:54.8	I really, it's an idea I had.
0:56.3	Because as soon as I read your article, I thought,
0:57.8	I wrote a paper in college in my early, uh,
1:01.7	philosophy of early China class about the Dwangta and comedy.
1:05.7	And I was like, I'm just going to take that article and turn it into an Amazon book
1:08.8	and then throw it out of the world.
1:09.9	Why not?
1:10.7	Exactly.
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