This book is a compilation of blog posts the author wrote while simultaneously writing a novel (without an outline!) in ten days. It's more of a journal than a how-to book. There are a lot of personal details and I found him interesting and likeable, even if I don't see me writing a book every 11 days (I don't remember for sure if i was in this book or somewhere else I read about him but he said he likes to write a book in ten days, take one day off, then start again.).

People interested in a personal look into a fast-writing author's life and a bit of his process. Authors. Especially fiction authors.

His personal details, love of cats, and the reinforcement of just getting things done.

I had expected more of a how to... and other than making sure you write enough words per day (he averaged around 1000 words per session and was writing a 70,000 page word so aimed for 7,000 words a day, usually in seven writing sessions throughout his day).

Read something by him with more how to info.

Amazed that he could do so many other things while writing a book in ten days. And that his schedule was so wild. He's definitely a night owl.

It was interesting and personable.

Author's blurb from Amazon: " USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published more than a hundred novels in thirty years and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, they wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. He now writes his own original fiction under just the one name, Dean Wesley Smith. In addition to his upcoming novel releases, his monthly magazine called Smith’s Monthly premiered October 1, 2013, filled entirely with his original novels and stories. Dean also worked as an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He now plays a role as an executive editor for the original anthology series Fiction River. For more information go to www.deanwesleysmith.com, www.smithsmonthly.com or www.fictionriver.com. --This text refers to the paperback edition. "

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