I'd highly recommend reading "Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction" by Rob Fitzpatrick. Its a super pragmatic tutorial on writing non fiction that folks will actually use
由于我正准备写一本技术书(我的第一本写得很烂,但卖得还不错),我发现了 Rob Fitzpatrick 写的《写出有用的书》(Write Useful Books),它把写一本“有用”的书(即真正能教给你东西的书)当成了产品设计,基本上就是通过多轮 beta 读者来对你的书进行产品化设计……
As I’m about to write a technical book (my first was pretty bad, but sold reasonably well), I found “Write useful books” by Rob Fitzpatrick which approaches writing a “useful” book (i.e., something that really teaches you something) as product design, by basically product-designing your book through multiple beta-reader…
Ambitious and cool project! Over my head as I’m not a coder but I think one bullet you should emphasize is the impostor syndrome part. I think that would resonate strongly. You might like Rob fitzpatrick’s write useful books: http://writeusefulbooks.com/ He takes a very product development focused approach to book writing (he wrote the mom test book) and discusses how to find beta readers and such. Best of luck!
对于这栋楼里的人,我强烈推荐 Rob Fitzpatrick 关于如何把写书做成一门生意的著作——《写出有用的书:设计和打磨值得推荐的非虚构作品的现代方法》(Write Useful Books):https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... 尽管我不是作者,但我发现这些建议非常实用……
For people in this thread, I strongly recommend Rob Fitzpatrick's book on how to write a book as a business, "Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction": https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... Even though I'm not an author I found the advice very useful,…
对其他人来说,如果有兴趣,我强烈建议通读一下 Rob Fitzpatrick 的《写出有用的书》(Write Useful Books):https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... 它并不完全是针对技术书的,但主要讲的是如何写出值得推荐的非虚构书籍,其中有些内容显然可以……
For anyone else interested, I highly recommend reading through Rob Fitzpatrick's "Write Useful Books": https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... It isn't about technical books exactly but it does speak mostly on how to write recommendable non-fiction, some of which can obviously…
强烈推荐阅读罗伯·菲茨帕特里克(Rob Fitzpatrick)的《写出有用的书:设计和打磨值得推荐的非虚构作品的现代方法》(Write Useful Books)。这是一本超级务实的指南,教你如何写出读者真正能派上用场的非虚构书籍。
I'd highly recommend reading "Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction" by Rob Fitzpatrick. Its a super pragmatic tutorial on writing non fiction that folks will actually use
Rob Fitzpatrick 写的《写出有用的书》(Write Useful Books)是一本绝妙的指南,手把手教你如何撰写、测试、编辑和润色技术类非虚构书籍。
"Write Useful Books" by Rob Fitzpatrick is an amazing guide for how to write, test, edit, and polish technical nonfiction.
由于我正准备写一本技术书(我的第一本写得很烂,但卖得还不错),我发现了 Rob Fitzpatrick 写的《写出有用的书》(Write Useful Books),它把写一本“有用”的书(即真正能教给你东西的书)当成了产品设计,基本上就是通过多轮 beta 读者来对你的书进行产品化设计……
As I’m about to write a technical book (my first was pretty bad, but sold reasonably well), I found “Write useful books” by Rob Fitzpatrick which approaches writing a “useful” book (i.e., something that really teaches you something) as product design, by basically product-designing your book through multiple beta-reader…
雄心勃勃又很酷的项目!因为我不是程序员,所以技术细节我不太懂,但我认为你必须强调的一点是冒充者综合征(impostor syndrome)部分。我觉得那会引起强烈共鸣。你可能会喜欢 Rob Fitzpatrick 的《写出有用的书》(Write Useful Books):http://writeusefulbooks.com/ 他采用了一种非常偏产品开发的方法来写书(他就是写《创业提问法/The Mom Test》的那个人),还讨论了如何寻找 beta 读者等。祝顺利!
Ambitious and cool project! Over my head as I’m not a coder but I think one bullet you should emphasize is the impostor syndrome part. I think that would resonate strongly. You might like Rob fitzpatrick’s write useful books: http://writeusefulbooks.com/ He takes a very product development focused approach to book writing (he wrote the mom test book) and discusses how to find beta readers and such. Best of luck!
对于这栋楼里的人,我强烈推荐 Rob Fitzpatrick 关于如何把写书做成一门生意的著作——《写出有用的书:设计和打磨值得推荐的非虚构作品的现代方法》(Write Useful Books):https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... 尽管我不是作者,但我发现这些建议非常实用……
For people in this thread, I strongly recommend Rob Fitzpatrick's book on how to write a book as a business, "Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction": https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... Even though I'm not an author I found the advice very useful,…
对其他人来说,如果有兴趣,我强烈建议通读一下 Rob Fitzpatrick 的《写出有用的书》(Write Useful Books):https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... 它并不完全是针对技术书的,但主要讲的是如何写出值得推荐的非虚构书籍,其中有些内容显然可以……
For anyone else interested, I highly recommend reading through Rob Fitzpatrick's "Write Useful Books": https://www.amazon.com/Write-Useful-Books-recommendable-nonf... It isn't about technical books exactly but it does speak mostly on how to write recommendable non-fiction, some of which can obviously…