Good morning from New York City. I’m sitting here thinking about a fun conversation I had last night with my friend Maya. She’s just written her second book and she was telling me it’s 80,000 words. It’s been written and completed in a rather unconventional way, of at breakneck speed.

We were talking about the woman she’s been working with. Maya went for a three-day weekend with her to share the idea and hash out what the book might look like. This woman is very talented at deep listening, while at the same time challenging the author’s thinking. She massages the outline in order to get authors to the start line in a unique fashion. Some authors go on to work to publish with her. Some don’t. Maya chose to do so and agreed to work within a fast, extremely intense self-publishing formula, with hard deadlines. She was telling me that she suffered, but that she had come out the other end on time with a final product.

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