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How to Write Your First Book in 6 Months

Secrets to Becoming a Best Selling Author

Liam Sandford
5 min readJan 31, 2023
Effortless Public Speaking

81% of Americans want to write a book. Only 8% ever make it to publication.

Writing a book is like climbing a mountain, or that’s how it feels before you start. The reality is much easier. Before writing my first book it felt like an impossible task. Fast forward 6 months and my book was being delivered through the front door.

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It all started 6 months ago. A request was made at the Public Speaking Twitter Space to have ‘some kind of product’ from my co-host, Derek and I. We decided to write a book, with the crazy idea of doing it in 6 months.

How to write a book in 6 months

To write a book in 6 months sounds impossible at first glance, but lets break it down.

You can write 500 words a day for 100 days and reach 50,000 words. That is just shy of the word count for the average non-fiction book.

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Liam Sandford
Liam Sandford

Written by Liam Sandford

I help ambitious people scale their impact with quiet communication • Best Selling Author of Effortless Public Speaking • liamsandford.com/subscribe

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