- How long does it take to write a book?
Six to 12 months?
Some people even said 120 hours is how long it takes
to accomplish it.
Some even say as short as three to seven months.
What about writing a book in 24 hours? Is it even possible?
Is this something that is really feasible?
What I'm looking to do is create a book
that's 20 to 30,000 words long.
That's a bit shorter than an epic-length novel,
but it's certainly a book anyways.
And if I'm able to do this,
what I'm going to promise you is if you stick around
to the very end of this video,
I'll give you a free access to it.
It's going to be for limited time.
So let's see if we can do this.
(ominous music)
(alarm ringing)
It's just a little bit after 6:15 in the morning here
on a Saturday, getting ready to get showered up,
eat some breakfast and probably get ready
for this 24 hour marathon.
Kelly's very positive.
She's very optimistic,
thinks I can be able to crank this out.
And under that amount of time and I'm certainly hoping
that will be the case as well, so we will see.
A 30,000 word book normally would probably take
about a month to put together for me.
We're gonna probably try to see if we can do it
in less than a day.
So, all right, 6:15 a.m.
Hopefully I won't have to be up
at this time again tomorrow, so.
(water gushing)
(shower curtain closing)
(serene music)
Getting down to about zero hour,
I'm stuffing my face full of some oatmeal,
would be my first meal of the day.
Thankfully, yesterday I took a little bit time,
I packaged up five different meals.
I even baked a cake.
And I've got some watermelon chopped up,
have some bananas on call,
so that way I can just be able to fire off.
So it's only about 7:27 right now.
So I've only been up a little over an hour
and I had to get the whole livestream set up,
put up both the timers for the 24 hour timer,
as well as the Pomodoro timer.
Gonna flip it around here,
you can actually see when I got the mic all set up,
I have both my monitors set up.
Yeah, that's right, not only am I having to sweat
putting together a stinking book,
I'm trying to do this live at the very same time,
because I figured, you know,
we might as well go ahead and chronicle the process
and have people join me for the ride.
So, well, I think the next time I'll be
checking in with you, it'll be on the monitor,
so see you then.
(upbeat music)
Okay, okay, okay, it looks like it's time
for us to get right into things.
So if you haven't been to this channel before,
I am Dale L. Roberts,
bestselling author as well as self publishing advocate.
And I normally say, hey,
I want to show you how to publish books and sell.
But today we're going to be writing a book.
Now this is a book that I've tried writing twice already.
And I just scrapped it, went through a full rewrite again.
So let's go ahead and get this party started.
(upbeat music)
I just finished up the first series here
of the Pomodoro method and I got about 3,500 words.
Not too bad, actually 500 of that's an outline,
so it's about 3000.
So not terrible.
Actually, it might've been just a little bit more.
Let me double check that.
Excuse me, so actually I did 4,300 words so far, 4,352.
So that means I've done about 3,800 words altogether.
With the goal of doing about 20,000 to 30,000 words
on this book, definitely on a roll.
But I'm getting ready to go ahead and grab some grub
and we're going to keep this party rolling.
So fast forward, baby.
(upbeat music)
I just finished up the Pomodoro method round number two.
So that means I'm four hours deep into this project.
Grabbing some cake, getting ready to jump back into things.
Still kind of full from my last stint,
but I figure if I can kind of eat some food,
it'll keep me awake and alert and keep it ongoing.
Obviously I'm not relying anything on caffeine,
this is all on willpower.
Starting to feel a little fatigued physically,
but it's good to kind of stand up and stretch about.
(upbeat music)
This has been fun.
I'm starting to feel the physical fatigue kicking in.
Mentally, I haven't checked out just yet.
I feel still very creative,
so I'm able to kind of go through this.
But, looking through my outline, I believe I've probably got
about another 15,000 words minimum.
That's just kind of a guess looking over things,
it could be more, it could be less.
I'm going to grab some grub,
get freshened up and jumped right back into things.
I'll see you after the very next Pomodoro session.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so I just finished up the fourth round
of the Pomodoro method. It is pretty freaking crazy.
I am just a little North of 15,000 words.
Feeling pretty good.
I know I'm feeling a little bit beat
as far as talking goes, cause just in between these rounds,
I've been jib-jabbing.
And I'm not used to streaming this much,
so getting a little bit of that fatigue.
The good news is I'm probably gonna finish up the book
somewhere just a little bit north of say 20,000 words.
And I'm not disappointed.
It's not like I wanted to try to stuff this thing full
till it was 20 or 30,000 words.
It just was kind of a ballpark range.
Now I'm starting to see, okay, not too bad.
All righty, well, I will see you
when I wrap up things on the very last session.
(upbeat music)
(bell dinging)
Well, that is about it.
So I just finished up the fifth Pomodoro method session
and I finished up at about south of 20,000 words.
Now, the OCD portion of me is probably kind of going,
ah, I should have been 20 to 30,000.
But I know that once I go through edits,
I'm probably gonna have a couple of rewrites here and there.
And of course the preface is going to be added in
after I get the first round of edits done.
So I can kind of get a better idea
of the direction of this three part series
that I'm gonna be doing.
So wow, 24 hours. I said, "Can it be done?"
And the answer is yes, yes. I did do it.
Now, is it an epic novel? No, not by any stretch.
But I knew that at 20 to 30,000 words,
it wasn't going to be.
I've spent probably about nearly 11 hours streaming online
and doing this whole process.
And I did it so that way I could have everybody
hold me accountable.
So that means that over the next month or two,
they're actually going get a chance
to get their hands on this specific book.
So I decided to take on this challenge
for writing a book in 24 hours
and it wasn't necessarily to flex how great I am at writing.
It's more so to kind of show to you
that regardless of your circumstances,
if you have the right mindset going into a task,
like writing a book, that you can really accomplish a lot
in a lot faster than, say,
waiting on another six to 12 months
to actually get your manuscript done.
And you know, maybe you're working on
some type of an 80,000 word or 100,000 word book,
and 24 hours is probably not going to be feasible for you
to do something like that.
But what I would implore on you
is to just take massive action.
That's going to be the most important thing for you
as an author.
If you want to get any kind of traction in this business,
most important thing you gotta do is just get started.
Okay, so now the book is thoroughly edited,
proof-read, formatted, and I even documented the process
of getting the cover design done
by five different designers over on Fiverr
in a recent video.
Now you can get your hands on the first part of three
in the Amazon self publisher series
with Amazon keywords for books.
For a limited time,
you can actually join the advanced reader copy team
when you visit dalelinks.com/arcteam.
And if you don't want to do that,
you can always wait until about September the 15th,
when it will be released to the public
at dalelinks.com/keywordsbook.
All of these links are going to be down
in the description down below.
And hey, by the way,
I was talking about the book cover design
and how we did that, it's over in this very next video here.
You'll be amazed at some of the covers.
And though you'll find out what the cover is
that I ended up getting,
it's kind of cool to see a behind the scenes
and how that all worked out and the other four designs.
So I'll see you there.