Write a Book While Building Your Personal Brand | Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel

Link: Write a Book While Building Your Personal Brand | Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel

Really interesting ideas for the process of writing a book by writing a series of blog posts, then treating them like pieces of a JIGSAW that you then put together in a book.  500 words a day (one short post) eventually becomes a book. 

Describes two approaches – planning the big picture first (writing bite-sized posts based on topics in a detailed book outline) or serendipity (write the posts first and organize them later, trusting that a meaningful whole will emerge even if you don’t know yet what you want your book to be about).