No, You Will Never Write That Book

If there’s anything a writer hates to hear, it’s this:

“Oh, you’re a writer? I thought about writing a book once.”

Nobody means any harm about this, of course. But the implication is clear — anybody can write anything if they try hard enough. After all, you only have to sit down and write a whole bunch of words, right? Right?!

How hard could it be? According to surveys, somewhere in the range of 200 million people think they could write a book.

If you’ve ever said those words “I thought about writing a book,” I forgive you (sort of). I also write this post in hopes of giving you a guide to why you WON’T ever write a book.

1. You’ll never find the time

I love that expression — “Find the time.”

Like some day you’ll look under a rock and suddenly discover an extra hour a day the rest of us don’t have.

You will never find the time to write your book because time doesn’t just happen — it is managed, controlled, directed. The biggest reason non-writers never become writers is simply because their lives are already in motion, following a certain path.

Every single person on the planet can write a book. Everyone has a unique story…