Write a GREAT Book! 33 Being a habitual writer doesn’t mean you have to be working on your book, or books, all the time. A great way to feel at home with writing is by sending letters to your friends. An actual, physical letter can have a big impact. (Remember to keep copies of your correspondences and archive them. You, your heirs, your biographer, and your archivist will be glad you did.) Steve Gottry and I have just 昀椀nished a new series of Speed Write books. It behooves me especially to share one title that I hope you will get. Called Speed Write Your Life Story or Autobiography, it will, as its title suggests, enable you to write your life story. We recommend that you write it in ninety days by writing twenty- two min- utes per day. Wouldn’t it be nice if your great- great- great- grandparents had done that so you knew your ancestral history and their experiences in times gone by? Texting, video recordings, email, and instant mes- sages have made letter writing almost a lost art. But many of our finest authors were fanatical letter writers, sending handwritten correspondence back and forth on a scale that seems almost unimaginable today. Even Abraham Lincoln, Albert, Einstein, Ronald Reagan, and Mahatma Gandhi found time to write thousands of letters. So, yes, learning to write requires writing—and by the way, it also requires reading. Oddly, many aspiring writ- ers read very little, or they only read one kind of material.