Lee Child has sold 200M+ books and is the author of the Jack Reacher series.
What you may not know is that he didn't write his first book until he lost his job at age 40 and was broke.
When he told his dad his plans, the response was doubt:
"I bet you 10,000 to 1 that it won't work," his dad said.
Needless to say, Child won the bet.
In this clip, he shares one of the top hacks he uses to write better...
Inside Lee Child’s “Churning“ Writing Method
Child explains his method as taking two steps forward and one step back every day.
He starts the day by:
Reading what he wrote the previous day aloud
Then editing it
Then he writes the next section.
In so doing, Child estimates that he goes through 100 drafts on each book:
“So that at the end of my first draft, you could easily think of it as, that's it. One draft. But, it's actually effectively the 100th draft because every day I've churned through it perfecting it.”
Andy Martin, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge who shadowed Child full-time for …
