Why You (Yes You!) Should Write Your First Book Now

So You’ve Never Written a Book Before? Here’s Why You Should

What if you could bottle your voice today and send it a hundred years into the future? Someone you’ll never meet opens it, reads your words, and makes a choice that changes their life.

Now imagine a reader in Brazil, Kenya, or Japan. They pick up your book on a train. They finish a chapter, close it, and take a different path because of what you wrote. That single decision ripples out to their family, their work, their community. Your voice becomes a global domino effect.

That’s what a book is.

Publishing a book isn’t just about ink on paper.

It’s about carving a mark into time.

And if you’re here — debating whether you should start, hesitating over the blank page, doubting whether anyone would care — this is for you.

✦ Visualizations & Metaphors That Change How You See Book Writing

The Time Capsule

Your book is a sealed jar you bury under the roots of a giant tree. Fifty years from now, someone will dig it up, open it, and hear your voice echoing across time.

You’re writing for people not even born yet.

The Lighthouse

Every word is a beam of light. Somewhere across the dark ocean, a lost ship sees that glow and corrects its course. You’ll never know how many ships, but your light keeps them from crashing.

The Bridge

You’re building a bridge between what you had to suffer to learn and what someone else can learn without the suffering. Your book is a shortcut carved out of your scars.

The Constellation

Each chapter is a star. On its own, it shines faintly, but together they form a constellation — a new shape for the reader to navigate their own night sky.

The Ink Revolution

Think about it: emperors, philosophers, rebels, and visionaries all used ink to change the world. A book is portable revolution. Your words could end up in the hands of someone who uses them to invent, heal, create, or fight for something bigger.

✦ Thought Experiments to Spark Obsession

If You Vanished Tomorrow

Imagine you disappeared tomorrow. What wisdom, stories, or warnings would you want to leave behind so your family, friends(or someone like them across the world) wouldn’t have to stumble blind? That urgency = writing fuel.

The Butterfly Effect

Someone in Brazil, Kenya, or Japan reads your book on a train. They close it, make one new choice in their life because of your words — and that ripples out to hundreds of others. Your voice = global domino.

The Parallel Universe

Imagine a version of you who never dared to publish. Ten years from now, he or she will regret it every single day. Don’t let that version of you win.

✦ Brutal Honest Tips & Strategies for First-Time Authors

Most first drafts are trash. Accept it. Your job is not to be brilliant at once, but to put down raw clay. Editing is the sculptor.

Readers don’t care about you — they care about themselves. Write everything through the lens of what this gives them. Even personal stories must be mirrors.

Publishing is 50% writing, 50% marketing. If you want to reach millions, prepare to spend just as much energy on building reach as on writing. Read this article, it’s a case study of Alex Hormozi, who nailed the marketing aspect of publishing his book and breaking records through advertising and marketing.

Nobody will hand you credibility. Your book is your credibility. The way you launch it, talk about it, and stand behind it will matter just as much as the content.

Don’t try to write the “perfect book.” Write the real book, the one only you can write, right now. Perfect belongs to the second, third, tenth book.

Test early. Share ideas, blog posts, essays, or snippets before the book is done. See what resonates. That’s your compass.

Think legacy, not likes. Your book might not trend the week it comes out. But five years later, it could still be quietly changing lives.

✦ One Firesun Metaphor

Think of your book like planting a sun inside the world.

Right now, it’s just in your chest — burning, glowing. But once you release it, that sun rises every time someone opens a page. It warms them, blinds them, awakens them.

That’s obsession fuel. You’re literally bottling fire.

✦ Final Truth

Here’s the brutal truth: most debut books sell under 200 copies. But if you treat this not as a “book project” but as the beginning of a body of work, it can catapult you into a life where your ideas are currency.

That’s why I’m writing mine.

Not because I expect to become a bestseller overnight. But because I want my two little sisters to have a map, a shortcut, a light. If it helps other people too, I’ll be more than grateful.

🌱 If you’ve ever thought about writing your book, start today. The world needs your voice.

And if you’d like to support mine, you can preorder my debut book here — it’s the best way to help me bring this project to life.