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Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 31
Well I naïvely thought writing a kids book would be easy. It's fewer words that's gotta be easy. But I think the words have to be a little bit more precise and thought about, because it’s gonna be read to little kids. consistency in writing is very important. I think you’ve got to show up every day, you gotta be getting words down on the page, even if your heart’s not in it. Even if you don't have any ideas, you’ve just gotta be putting stuff down on the page. And back from my script writing days a lot of people would refer to that as a vomit pass, which is pretty much a first draft. Get the words out there on the page, you get the idea out there. Because if you stop, you’ve stopped. Whereas if you’re being consistent in writing every day, you’re at least getting something, you've got something to work with. But if you're not getting anything down on the page you've got nothing to work with.

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