{"id":3957,"date":"2011-03-16T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2011-03-15T20:32:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:32:17","slug":"dave-rave-5-reasons-you-should-write-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dave-rave-5-reasons-you-should-write-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rave – 5 Reasons You Should Write a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"daverave\"<\/p>\n

The numbers are out.\u00a0 There were over 200,000 new books published in the United States in 2010.\u00a0 This is by traditional, old world media publishers.\u00a0 The real blow-your-mind statistic is that an additional 700,000 books were self-published <\/strong>by authors.\u00a0 What does this tell you?\u00a0 One, it’s a lot easier to get a book published and a lot less expensive than it has ever been.\u00a0 The only reason you’d need a publisher anyway, is for their ability to get dead-tree books into big-box stores.\u00a0 And now that both of those are going away, publishing is open to everyone.<\/p>\n

You know you have a book in you, and you know you should probably write a book.\u00a0 So let me give you five reasons, hopefully to push you into action:<\/p>\n

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  1. You should write a book to contribute your insights<\/strong> to an area of expertise or interest that you have a particular, singular, interesting passion for.<\/li>\n
  2. You should write a book to force yourself to grow intellectually<\/strong> by reading, researching, putting your thoughts on paper and making them make sense.<\/li>\n
  3. You should write a book to find your own voice.<\/strong> One of the hardest things to do as a first-time writer is to trust that you have something to say and that your voice is as legitimate as anyone else’s out there.<\/li>\n
  4. You should write a book to be taken seriously<\/strong>.\u00a0 Let’s be honest.\u00a0 We take people who write books – serious books, interesting books, well-researched and well-written books – more seriously than we do people who write two or three-paragraph blogs.\u00a0 Yes, I know there are exceptions.\u00a0 But trust, me.\u00a0 They are<\/em> the exception.<\/li>\n
  5. You should write a book to leave a legacy of thought and insight<\/strong> that will continue to live on long after you pass off the scene.\u00a0 You talk about passive income or passive influence; I’ve been in ball games, concerts, even sleeping, to wake up and get a voice mail, email, or tweet from someone halfway around the world who has read one of my books.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I hope these are enough to get you into the game and get you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The numbers are out.\u00a0 There were over 200,000 new books published in the United States in 2010.\u00a0 This is by traditional, old world media publishers.\u00a0 The real blow-your-mind statistic is that an additional 700,000 books were self-published by authors.\u00a0 What does this tell you?\u00a0 One, it’s a lot easier to get a book published and … Continue reading “Dave Rave – 5 Reasons You Should Write a Book”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}