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Is this really a book’s worth of content?

• itamarst 8y ago
  Author here— It's about 27,000 words, so about a 100 pages at industry "standard" of 250-300 words a page. So, taken in a literal sense, yes. Does it need a book's worth of content? It depends. If you have a lot of experience negotiating quite possibly not, you can figure it out on your own probably (you can learn some techniques from interview I did https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer... and https://stackingthebricks.com/guest-post-how-30x500-alum-chris-hartjes-bootstraps-on-the-side/ https://stackingthebricks.com/guest-post-how-30x500-alum-chr...). Some people need more information though, and that's what I've tried to provide.
  • mprev 8y ago
    Thanks for the thorough response. How was your experience writing the book? I’m curious to learn about people’s process for taking an expertise and converting it into a book.
    • itamarst 8y ago
      1. I interviewed a number of people (and their stories are in the book), both as inspiration for readers and to spot more patterns than my personal experience. 2. A lot of time spent reading books, and even more importantly online comments from people who have done it (for more techniques) and people who wanted to do it (for questions and worries people have). That plus personal experience gave me outline of gap between where people are and what they need to be able to do, and skills and information needed to fill the gap. (There's idea of backward design in education: here are outcomes, which require these skills, which require these even earlier skills, which require these attitudes...)