Don’t start writing a book by writing a book. It’s tempting to start your book by creating a new Google Docs and throwing words into a page. You’ll doubt every step in the process. Start by writing about your book subject months or years in advance: You’ll validate your ideas even before they become your table of content. You’ll grow an audience to sell your book to. After writing Street-Smart Coding, my first coding book, I write almost all my books backwards. That’s what I learned from a book experiment I ran earlier this year when I wrote 10 Surprisingly...