Professional Scribes vs. Amateur Writers

Phil Simon
2 min readOct 3, 2022

Certain tenets apply to all vocations. The guys who play weekend hoops at the Y take a few jump shots before playing a game to eleven. They don’t practice like Steph Curry. Whether you get paid to play golf, belt out tunes, or give speeches, pros don’t just wing it.

Pros

Professional writers are no exceptions to this rule; they approach their craft differently than their amateur counterparts. When beginning the process of writing a book, pros focus on:

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Phil Simon

Keynote speaker, advisor, and award-winning author of 13 📗, most recently Low-Code/No-Code: Citizen Developers & the Surprising Future of Business Applications