>In the last 12 months, I've written over 115,000 words. The typical book is about 50,000 to 60,000 words, so I have basically written two books this year. >Ca

>In the last 12 months, I've written over 115,000 words. The typical book is about 50,000 to 60,000 words, so I have basically written two books this year. >Can you imagine if I had made it my goal to write two books this year? Just writing that sentence stresses me out. This is precisely why the goal is important. This guy focused on the system, and instead of writing two books, produced twice as many words of not-books. At college I had some friends who wrote many extremely cool game demos. Not one published a game. I focused on publishing a game. It turns out that writing a game involves a hell of a lot more than writing a demo (a lot of boring shit actually). I expect it is the same with books and online articles. 115,000 words of articles doesn't make a book, and I expect doesn't require the practitioner to develop a system capable of writing books.