Proposition: Anybody Can Write a Book

I propose that anybody can write a book especially those who are online most of the time and actively posting in forums. Indulge me as I explain.

Let us suppose that a typical full-length book has 100,000 words. Posting regularly at myLot (a pay per post website) to you reach the $10 payout will result in about 300-500 posts. If you average 50 words per post, you practically have enough word count for a quarter of a book. Repeated enough times and you’ll have book written without even knowing it.

Of course, it’s a book about your view of the world. But this is another problem that can be easily solved. In any case, reaching the target word count is the first step. Realizing that you can easily reach this milestone should make you think about this possibility.

    • categorical
    • May 14th, 2010

    This idea was originally started at myLot. Read original post, Anybody Can Write a Book.

    Please note that I miscalculated the typical word count for a full-length book in the original post. It seems 10,000 words is too low. In this post, I’m going to use 100,000 words as a typical number for a 200-page book. I don’t know if this is accurate, but for now, it will be our baseline.

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