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And I'm guessing that the total effort was greater than 1 months work? Out of interest as an hourly rate did it come in above minimum wage?

• jgrahamc 16y ago
  I spent six months in front of my computer writing the book and doing research, on top of time taken to visit the places (which is the result of a lifetime of traveling). I worked pretty much an 8 hour day. I was working in France at home so I would get up in the morning and start work on the book. I had always left myself something easy to work on the night before (such as a section of the book that I knew I could write) so that I was never blocked. I would take a long lunch with a glass of wine with my SO and then return to work on the book. I had a very detailed schedule of work and I put off bits of the book that were easy for me until the end so that I was forced to work on the hard bits first. I had a spreadsheet that would track my progress and predict my end date based on writing rate. This was very motivational and made sure that I hit my deadline with O'Reilly. Once the book was delivered there were 8 months between me handing in the manuscript and publication. This was longer than usual for O'Reilly because of the large number of illustrations in the book and the complexity of the book layout.