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Why Do You Want to Write a Book?

And some of the reasons you should not

Sandra Wendel
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readFeb 29, 2024

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Why do people write books?

It’s a simple question with a million answers. Well, 38 million answers. That’s how many books are in the Amazon store (about half are in English). Up to a million new books are published each year.

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