How I didn't write one of my books
a cautionary tale
You may recognise my allusion to Calvino’s How I Wrote One Of My Books1. Within an archive, latterly digitised, are my notes, drawings and printouts for a book about a particular area of education.
I knew that that sort of volume I had in mind would be unlikely to make the Sunday Times bestseller shortlist, and anyone in education would not have been mistaken had they declared that there are already more books on the subject that we probably need. However, my book was going to be aimed at a very niche audience, and would have benefitted from the following:
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