The Difference Between Good and Bad

The Difference Between Good and Bad

The difference between a good book and a bad book is the number of rewriting. I tasted what great writers have been talking about. The same page is edited many many times until each word is soaked with sweat. Writing a good book is like a labour pain. There is no short cut. Actually, the short cut is to have another womb to bear your works (a ghostwriter). There is no pleasure to have someone do your works.

I have 2 draft with me and I can't wait to deliver it. But it is just not good enough for the world to read. Will it ever be good enough? There's a 101 things to take care - more examples, getting permission for quotations, rewriting the back cover, rewrite this and that, getting distinguished people to provide some testimonies, and a few more experts to interview. It never ends.

Goh KC said one should never promise the people that writing a book is easy. It is not. A author must shared his interpretation of the principles, his experience and insight.

There is a local writer who wrote about public speaking. I could not sense his personal contribution, I could not feel his personality nor his soul in the book. All he probably did was to compile 2nd hand knowledge. I could not hear his own voice.

Writing a book is very easy. But writing a good book - prepare to write a dozen times and fill up the dustbin with your precious masterpiece.

I am in labour pain now. Only I alone bears my baby. When can I deliver it?