5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Writing a Book

by Brian Klems (@BrianKlems)

When writing my book, Oh Boy, You’re Having a Girl:A Dad’s Survival Guide to Raising Daughters, I ran into a lot of roadblocks. I’d like to place the blame elsewhere, but the truth is, they were my fault (Okay, I’ll place part of the blame on TBS for airing all those reruns of “Scrubs” — seriously, I just can’t get enough of that show). Most of the roadblocks, though, were from avoidable mistakes I made during the writing process. Thankfully, now I know better.

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