Question for people who have written a book (qua book, not blog compilations etc): What was your book, and what opportunities and activities did it open up for you? How did it change your life? If you wrote more than 1, pick the one that changed your life the most.
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Hence the OP question. I genuinely want to know what sorts of interesting+unexpected external effects might result specifically from a book form factor. No, not media coverage, hobnobbing with glitterati etc (based on small tastes I've had, those are active demotivators for me)
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One of the effects of being an internet-native writer, with enough success to foster a degree of arrogance, is that "book" motivations that work for trad writers don't work for you. You already know that many of the rewards of book-writing are better realized through blogs etc.
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Almost any specific external effect or outcome of a book I can bring myself to care about, I can immediately think of like 6 better ways to achieve through much easier and more fun ways through blog posts etc. A book is usually the worst medium for most kinds of actual impact.
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The biggest internal reason to try and write a book is to challenge yourself to hunt down a much larger idea than social media allows. Books allow you to aim for intellectual outer space. At the moment, social media only allows you to achieve low-altitude atmospheric flight.
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How about approaching it as something akin to sending a friend (literally) or smallish list a letter on the topic(s) once a week (whatever cadence makes sense) as a low-risk means of testing formats/soliciting feedback and nurturing a project specific audience?
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That would actually increase the kind of risk I care to mitigate. The tight/agile iterative feedback loops of social media writing are very bad for book-scale writing. If you use them you end up writing what reads like a series of blog posts/essays, begging the question.
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