Write Useful Books
Non-fiction treated as a product with users: recruit testers, watch where they stall, rewrite until it works.
Rob Fitzpatrick treats non-fiction as a product with users rather than a manuscript with readers, and applies the discipline of iterative design to writing one. The method is concrete: recruit test readers early, watch where they stall, and rewrite until the book reliably delivers its promise. Aimed squarely at people writing to be useful rather than to be admired.
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Derek Sivers
How to write a non-fiction book so useful to people that they recommend it to others. A great step-by-step methodology from someone experienced, who’s done it successfully a few times already.
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