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Don’t Fear Dying: Fear a Life You Never Fully Lived Because You Didn’t Write That Book
An ode to all the folks who deeply want to publish
We all have a story to tell, and if we don’t take the time to write it down, it’s likely that no one else ever will.
It dies with you.
But what if you knew this was your chance to do something great and leave a lifelong legacy with a book you wrote? What if this message was your wake-up call? What if it’s time to finally write that book?
Look, we all know that death is a part of life.
It’s something we all have to face eventually, yet it’s always a shock when it happens to someone we know. It’s like walking up a flight of stairs in a distracted state and misjudging the final step. You expect there to be one more step, so you hesitate, maybe even falter, and find yourself off balance for a sec before your mind shifts back to the present moment and how fleeting life and the world really is.
What does dying have to do with writing books?
Death has a lot to do with writing books.
In fact, many great quotes have come from authors about just this topic. Arthur Miller said,
