only 4 people have read the book you are about to read
There was a time in my life when I would show my unfinished writing to people.
That never turned out well.
Eventually I learned me lesson.
I did it to get “feedback.”
I did it to get “buy in.”
I did it to get “approval.”
That was all a bunch of nonsense.
Nothing good is ever written by a committee.
Committees produce vapid, insipid, statements sapped of the soulfulness of the original.
Don’t believe me? Look at the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence before it was sent to committee. Now there’s a document written by a rebel.
It was a document Thomas Jefferson would have signed. It was not a document anyone else would sign. The one they eventually passed through committee was already radical enough.
That is the less daring version that John Hancock signed large and which now sits in our national archives.
If you like the Declaration of Independence, you would love Jefferson’s seldom talked about final draft.
I learned something early — never show anyone my unfinished work — they will pulverize it, even if they don’t mean to, and there will be nothing left.
I don’t know why it was like that for me, but it was. Letting anyone see an unfinished work of mine was a nearly certain death sentence for that work.
The thing in me that made it possible to write would just never re-emerge to make finishing that piece of writing possible.
I learned that the hard way.
Many, many times.
Eventually, I understood that my unfinishedwriting is just for me.
This latest book I am working on is different. I knew I had to show it to four people. I prayed about it, and the most random list of people came to mind, and in a very specific order.
Three of those four people, I never even once spoke about my writing with — and here I was being instructed to go show my unfinishedwriting to them? I obeyed. I diligently sought each one out, read the book to each individually, and each one rocked me with powerful feedback, totally reshaping my view of the subject. Powerful, beautiful words from each of the four.
I never show my unfinished writing to anyone.
This time was different.
Four people have seen this book. Four people have read the deeply personal stories inside. If you want to be the fifth, you can be. In about two weeks, I will send out PDF review copies of the book.
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The only catch is this — you need to agree to leave me an Amazon review on launch day. It can make a difference in how well a book does when it launches.
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Allan Stevo