Experiments With The 4-Hour Workweek
Update on my ebook project
10Jan2010 Filed under: 3. Automation (Muse and Outsourcing) Author: Rasmus
Well I must say that after trying for several months and having lost a couple of hundred dollars, I still don’t have an ebook written.
I have found numerous filippino writers who are great at writing articles, but I have not found anyone who could write an entire ebook. So I am beginning to accept that I might need to do most of the writing myself if I want an ebook… Or… Are there anyone out there who knows of a a writer (preferable from the Philippines) and is willing to share him/her?
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Hi, my name is Rasmus and I live in Denmark. In January 2008 I read the book 
I am in the IT business and saw that some of the stuff Tim mentioned in his book, was clearly possible. And while I will never be as hardcore as Tim is, there were certainly ideas in the book that I could see myself using.
This blog is all about my experiments with Living The Four Hour Work Week - although my weeks are currently longer :)
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Hannah
January 11th, 2010 at 4:57 am
Strange, So many people have had success with finding writers..I¨m sure you can too! What have been the problems?
Rasmus
January 11th, 2010 at 5:24 am
I can find alot who can write articles, but I think it is because it is a much larger job. It is easy to write 500 words for a simple article, but when you need to write 100 pages, you need much more structure and dicipline.
It could also be that the research material I provided has been too poor. Either way if you know anyone who can write ebooks please contact me
Pål
January 15th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Too bad Rasmus, how about hiring a person to find a writer for you? Not kidding, you can get a candidate list for screening within a couple of days I’m sure.
Rasmus
January 15th, 2010 at 1:59 am
Well I have always found good candidates, that is not really the problem. I think that the problem is that I typically give them 50% upfront and an ebook is a big project (larger than the articles most of them write normally)
Mat
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 am
Hi Rasmus
Just stumbled onto your site through a comment you posted on tims site.
Could be stating the obvious but have you tried elance for your ebook. If you have i would be interested in knowing how it worked for you.
Rasmus
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:44 am
Hi Mat
Thanks for you comment. I would prefer to have one full time employee rather than a project based task (that elance is bet at). But after a couple of failures, I have decided to try this route anyway.
I currently have a task on oDesk (similar to elance). The best thing about oDesk (and elance) is the “escrow” functionality where you pay oDesk/elance and the provider is only paid when they actually deliver. I could have used that on the first couple of writers I found
Mat
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:00 pm
oDesk, thanks another tool I can add to my kit.
Enjoy the blog so far and good to see some people like myself in europe currently diving into this lifestyle (currently living in Norway).
Rasmus
January 23rd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
@Mat: Good luck with the 4 hours