He describes ‘tricking’ himself by splitting the process into two parts: simply putting down ideas as notes without any pressure, before acknowledging he has ‘already written the book’ and simply now has to ‘edit it’ before sending it off to a publisher:
I wrote the bulk of Generative AI for Academics in four months this way. I then spent the rest of the time stressing out about how rapidly references were getting out of date, before getting sufficiently sick of it that I just sat down and finished it off in a couple of months. I hate editing but if I force myself to do a little bit of it every day, it’s astonishing how quickly you can get through it if the words are already on the page.
Mark Carrigan 