Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
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Nearly every author attempts to include too much stuff for too many different types of readers. But that’s a recipe for writing something mediocre for everybody and mind-blowing for nobody — every chapter that the amateur adores, the expert endures, and vice versa.
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in order to make something valuable for somebody, you must be willing to define and defend what your book isn’t.
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The scope of a useful book is like the executive summary of a new business. It’s an as-brief-as-possible description of what it is, who it’s for, and why they’ll pay for it: