EVERYBODY SAYS YOU SHOULD WRITE A BOOK. NOBODY TELLS YOU HOW BIG IT IS.
Two ninety minute Sprints. The first tells you whether there is a book in you that nobody else has already written. The second counts the whole first draft in sittings and gets you writing before you stand up.
GET WRITE A BOOK IN SPRINTSInstant access. Printable workbooks and two tools. Yours to keep.
IT IS NOT DISCIPLINE. IT IS THE SIZE OF THE THING IN YOUR HEAD.
You have been carrying this book around for years. Somebody said it at a dinner, or after a talk, and they meant it, and you took it home and installed it as a job. No brief, no reader, no deadline. Quietly behind on it ever since.
Here is what actually stops people over 50 writing the book. They never check whether it already exists, so they cannot commit to it. And they never count it, so it feels like a decade of weekends with no end. Both of those take an afternoon to fix.
TWO SPRINTS. NINETY MINUTES EACH.
THE BOOK SPRINT
Fourteen chapter titles, written fast. Then three real books on the same shelf yours would sit on, contents pages open. You cross out every chapter of yours that is already in one of them. What survives tells you, honestly, whether you have a book, an article, a talk, or not yet.
THE DRAFT SPRINT
You guess how long it will take. Then you do the sum: your chapters, your real writing pace, and the real gaps in your diary. Most people find the book is far smaller than they feared. You leave with a sitting by sitting schedule and your first forty five minutes written.
- Two printable workbooks you fill in by hand
- Two online tools that do the arithmetic and write your plan
- A sitting by sitting schedule with the halfway mark on it
- A word log that keeps count from the first sitting to the last
- A plan for the week it goes wrong, written while you are calm
WRITE A BOOK IN SPRINTS
Both Sprints, both workbooks, both tools. Instant access.
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I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN ANYTHING LONGER THAN AN EMAIL
Good. You have not picked up any bad habits. Both Sprints are built for people who know their subject and have never written a book about it.
WHAT IF IT TELLS ME THERE IS NO BOOK?
Then you found that out in ninety minutes instead of a year, and you will know exactly what you do have, which is usually a strong article or a talk. That is a result, not a failure.
DO I NEED SPECIAL SOFTWARE?
No. A pen, a printer if you have one, and three books from a library or a bookshop. The tools run in your browser and keep everything on your own device.
IS THIS FOR FICTION OR MEMOIR?
These two are for non fiction: the book about what you know. There are separate Sprints for fiction and for family memoir inside RISE55.
