Fail Quickly

I've started the next book for No Starch Press. There's an outline, and I've written both the introduction and the afterword. All that's left is the hard stuff in between, twenty-some chapters of it.

Where to start writing? That's easy: First, I write the stuff that's most likely to make the book fail.

Every project has easy parts that are fun and go quickly. Those are the tasks you're most familiar with, that leverage your existing skills. Then there's the parts that require you to...