Great retro - I can see your challenges. One thing worth calling out in the review or the retro is that this is a very graphic book. Full of diagrams, just like Osterwalder and Pigneur’s book, Business Model Generation. And I think this format is very under-used in tech literature. The diagrams give life and vibrancy to the topic. A canvas is a visual object/aid so the book needs to be highly visual. Well done.
Shane, having been thinking about writing a book for some time and encouraged by others, this has got me thinking about it again. You make a great point about how much harder it is to write less than it is to write more. Something for me to think about as I reopen my folder called "The Book" full of files containing snippets of content. I remember you posting in the early days that you set yourself a target of writing x number of words a day or was it a week or a month? I might try that approach and see if I can get past snippets for each of the chapters I have in my TOC snippet. Keep up the good work!
Kat Greenbrook and I (and potentially one other person) are doing a second book challenge, to help keep ourselves motivated to get them done, so feel free to join the "book writing club" (although I have no idea what that means as I just made that term uup)
It was Kat who encouraged me in the first place. I got started and as I said got an outline and some content written, but then life got in the way. I may take you up on it!
Great retro - I can see your challenges. One thing worth calling out in the review or the retro is that this is a very graphic book. Full of diagrams, just like Osterwalder and Pigneur’s book, Business Model Generation. And I think this format is very under-used in tech literature. The diagrams give life and vibrancy to the topic. A canvas is a visual object/aid so the book needs to be highly visual. Well done.
Shane, having been thinking about writing a book for some time and encouraged by others, this has got me thinking about it again. You make a great point about how much harder it is to write less than it is to write more. Something for me to think about as I reopen my folder called "The Book" full of files containing snippets of content. I remember you posting in the early days that you set yourself a target of writing x number of words a day or was it a week or a month? I might try that approach and see if I can get past snippets for each of the chapters I have in my TOC snippet. Keep up the good work!
Kat Greenbrook and I (and potentially one other person) are doing a second book challenge, to help keep ourselves motivated to get them done, so feel free to join the "book writing club" (although I have no idea what that means as I just made that term uup)
It was Kat who encouraged me in the first place. I got started and as I said got an outline and some content written, but then life got in the way. I may take you up on it!