How Long Are You Going to Sit On It?

Don't let your thing take the seven years it took me to publish my first book. Happy First Birthday to "Dear Fellow Spender."

What’s that saying, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound?” I have a riff on that: “If you write a book and it stays on your private Google Drive, have you really written a book?”

I really wanted this to be true and have my first book “count” as written—done—finito—while it stayed safely sequestered on note c…