More About My Book Writing Process

Wanted to tell you about my book writing process.

Since December 18, 2019 I have written 257 potentially book worthy LinkedIn posts.

This week I put all 257 of them in a huge 257 page Google doc – one per page.

Then, I reread each post and ranked 'em:

1: good shit (183 posts)

2: pretty good, but might get cut (58)

3: meh/irrelevant (16)

I also tagged each post with one or more of the following tags:

Race, mindfulness, EQ, leadership, DEIB, storytelling, gender, LGBTQ, reading, writing.

And I took some brief notes on each one.

Next up is go through the "1"s and do a deeper tagging to recognize recurring trends/themes/tones/narratives/topics/ etc.

Likely another thirty or so will get cut.

Then, I''ll put them in an order that has a good flow – unveiling themes/stories/philosophies so that later posts build on earlier posts.

I'll write an introduction.

Then, I'll ask maybe a dozen people who I trust and respect if they'd be interested and willing to read the manuscript and give me very direct and specific feedback and thought partnership.

I'll use those insights to improve the book and start getting it ready for publishing.

And, by the way, this process will also be nice prep for the podcast where I will read one post per episode.

Stay tuned for more coming soon.