“Writing a Book is Like Running a Maratho — ” No. No, It’s Not.

Asinine writing advice and how to fix it

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I did a quick Google search for this advice. It turned up 47.9 million results in half a second. Each of these details how writing a book is like running a marathon, or training for one. Some of these posts compare writing a book to the marathon itself: The excitement of the starting line…