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Confessions of an author on verge of despair

By James Altucher

Published: November 18 2008 01:23 | Last updated: November 18 2008 01:23

I am never going to do it again. Ever. I really do not enjoy the process of writing a book. I would rather sit through a 1,000-hour opera than write another book.

It is hard to write words that will be useful enough to compete with those contained in the other 100,000 books that are being published this year. Not to mention the 5m blogs that are updated every day that one can read for free.

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