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Lemonada

Today's caller has a common New Year's resolution, which is to write a book.

And when I say it's common, to be clear, that's not a bad thing.

I think it's a great idea.

I love writing books myself, so why wouldn't somebody else out there want to do that?

Well, maybe not everybody, but some people, I have learned long ago.

I never encouraged someone to write a book who doesn't want to. It has to be something you need to do yourself. But if you do, it is a valiant goal that I think you're going to find to be meaningful, no matter what happens with it. But today, the caller wants to know about the easiest and most helpful tools to write a nonfiction book specifically. As I'm going to say in the

description, unfortunately, books do not write themselves, but we're going to provide a few resources

that might make it quicker, simpler, just better, right? And we're also going to talk about the least

useful software, which is something you definitely want to avoid if your goal is to be creative.

I'm going to share exactly what I've used to write my last, I think, five books at this point.

And I'll give a couple of other tips as well.

Hopefully it'll be helpful to Alonzo and some other folks out there as well.

Stay tuned for Alonzo's question and my answer.

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