How long did it take you to write this book?

Dylan Evans I started writing the book in October 2007, but only managed to write about 10,000 words before I put it to one side. Over the following years, my friends would occasionally ask me if I had written the book yet. And I would tell them that I had put it on the back burner for now, and that I would return to it in due course. But as time went on, I became less and less convinced that I would ever finish it, and the whole project faded away ever more indistinctly into the background of my new life.

It never went away completely though. At the back of my mind it continued to niggle at me, and I knew I would never really achieve peace of mind until I had finished the book. And then, in Spring 2013, more than five years after leaving the Experiment, I realized I felt ready. I dusted off the first draft, and went back to work. I finished writing the book in March 2014.

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