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How many hours did you spend on the book to get to this point?


Urg, that might be impossible to estimate. Hundreds on the various tasks (writing, editing, designing, researching, etc.)


Could you... round to the nearest hundred?


What toelva said! I definitely added a week or so of work by doing all the design myself. Writing... if I focused, I could write another book in two weeks of full-time work (maybe less) but the issue is getting distracted, or taking the time to research, etc. Since the work was spread out over a year with a lot of my time focused on my startup or personal stuff, it's really hard to estimate, apologies.


Of course, I can't answer for limedaring but I write software ebooks too. For each ebook, it's between 200 and 300 hours for writing, editing, designing, researching, etc




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