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My Dad Hand-Wrote a Book in Two Months · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I want to share a quick story about my dad, and I hope that this story gives you some inspiration to keep on going.
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  SPEAKER_00: My father, Don Sanders, is a Vietnam veteran, and for years we've talked about putting together a book about his experiences in Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_00: And last year we decided this was a great time to get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: After all, he's 75 and I'm no spring chicken either.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for Father's Day of last year, I gave him a nice leather journal and I asked him to start writing down some stories from Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I figured that he would write 10 or 20 pages of notes for us to discuss and then he would verbally tell me the stories, because this is how I approach most ghostwriting projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, a couple of months later, when my dad came to my house to visit, he handed me the leather journal and I said, Well, what's this?
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  SPEAKER_00: I was confused because I didn't understand why he was giving this back to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, then he explained that he'd been working almost every day to write down all his memories from Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I opened the journal, I saw that he had filled nearly every page top to bottom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And later on, he gave me even more pages that he wrote in a different notebook.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in just a couple of months, my dad had handwritten the first draft of the book, which was over 200 handwritten pages.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is from a man who has struggled with multiple health problems from Agent Orange exposure as well as having arthritis in his hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I'm still in awe of this accomplishment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the next time that you think you can't write one more word or you're feeling a little bit tired, just remember my dad, Don Sanders, the Vietnam veteran who handwrote a book in just two months.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about your biggest writing project in front of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you think my dad would handle it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.