Tuesday, November 7, 2017

the self-help book i'm not working on

Genre: Self-help

Title: No working title

Estimated publication date: Posthumous

There are a couple of topics I suspect I know quite a bit about. I eat, run, and save better than most people, for example. It is possible one day I will mold my expertise in these mundane matters into a decent self-help book.

But in the calculus of getting published, I think my lack of credentials limits my chances. This is nothing new for me. It seems most of the people I outdo prefer to pay experts such as nutritionists, trainers, or asset managers to tell them the same generic advice rather than just try my slightly unusual approaches.

So, I think I would need to cook up a gimmick. Instead of diving deep into one topic, maybe I'll limit my advice to one page per topic. I think this has some potential but leaves me the task of coming up with one to two hundred more topics about which I can dispense a page of advice. I'll need the rest of my life, I think, to accumulate a book written in this manner.