{"id":15178,"date":"2019-03-02T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/?p=15178"},"modified":"2020-11-30T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:44:47","slug":"what-were-you-doing-while-the-top-ten-authors-on-amazon-wrote-their-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/what-were-you-doing-while-the-top-ten-authors-on-amazon-wrote-their-book\/","title":{"rendered":"What were you working on while the top ten authors on Amazon wrote their book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime; fullwidth=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb disabled_on=\u00a0\u00bbon|on|on\u00a0\u00bb _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.0.3&Prime; custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb0px||0px|\u00a0\u00bb disabled=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb global_module=\u00a0\u00bb15033&Prime;][et_pb_fullwidth_post_title meta=\u00a0\u00bboff\u00a0\u00bb featured_image=\u00a0\u00bboff\u00a0\u00bb _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.0.3&Prime; title_level=\u00a0\u00bbh2&Prime; title_font=\u00a0\u00bb|300|||||||\u00a0\u00bb title_text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb title_line_height=\u00a0\u00bb1.3em\u00a0\u00bb custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb20px||20px|\u00a0\u00bb border_color_all=\u00a0\u00bb#4CABE1&Prime; border_width_left=\u00a0\u00bb10px\u00a0\u00bb border_color_left=\u00a0\u00bb#4cabe1&Prime; border_style_left=\u00a0\u00bbdashed\u00a0\u00bb][\/et_pb_fullwidth_post_title][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22&Prime;][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.25&Prime; background_size=\u00a0\u00bbinitial\u00a0\u00bb background_position=\u00a0\u00bbtop_left\u00a0\u00bb background_repeat=\u00a0\u00bbrepeat\u00a0\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb4_4&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.25&Prime; custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb|||\u00a0\u00bb custom_padding__hover=\u00a0\u00bb|||\u00a0\u00bb][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.27.4&Prime;]<\/p>\n<p>What were you doing when Hugh Howey wrote Wool? What were you doing on 1<sup>st<\/sup> June 2011 when he published the first three chapters on his blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhowey.com\/wool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">http:\/\/www.hughhowey.com\/wool\/<\/a>)? He was working hard to make his dreams come true. Did you do the same?<\/p>\n<p>I know I was reading, writing, and enjoying good wine. After reading those three chapters from Wool, my love for the story was mixed with the frightening perceived difference in quality between Hugh&rsquo;s writing and my feeble attempts to a short story.<\/p>\n<p>I remember that night because one of my friends, a chef to a famous restaurant, had invited us for a private tasting of wines. In the taxi, with my eyes mirroring the lights of the city, sentences from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Xn5JTr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Enchantment &#8211; Guy Kawasaki<\/a> were giving shape to future decisions. I look back and realize I was doing things that moved me forward. It wasn\u2019t as much about a direction as it was about action.<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing this year, month, day? Are you writing? Because if you\u2019re not working hard to make your dreams come true nobody will care in five years from now what you did today.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you doing this year, month, day? Are you writing? 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