Why Writing A Book Is Like Having A Baby

There have been many times when I have all but forced a professor to pry a term paper I spent weeks exhausting over from my pinched fingertips, so it's absolutely no surprise to me that there are a number of articles out there making the association between published books and newborn babies. Or unpublished manuscripts and fetuses. I won't describe them (I'm sure you can already imagine the obsession, anxiety, and midnight cravings), but I can surely understand that it's no coincidence that the average gestation time between the exciting conception phase and the terrifying publication phase is approximately that of a human baby. The phases overlap in ways you can't possibly imagine.

Care to read about what may be in store for you? Here's an interesting article that looks at first-time authorship from a completely psychological perspective:

10 Ways Writing A Book Is Like Having A Baby

Here's another, albeit with more delightful sarcasm, whimsy, and stark declarations ("YOU MUST NOT NEGLECT IT[!]").

Writing A Book Is Like Having A Baby

If you have any questions or comments, please do leave them below. Perhaps I will one day write my own article - though I will have to admit in it that I have not given birth to a baby or book in my lifetime.

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