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The Greatest Reason To Write

And the stark gap between those who yearn to share stories and those who actually do

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Ben Ulansey
Nov 11, 2025
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I read a statistic recently about the number of United States residents who aspire to write a book at some point in their lives. Apparently, over 80% of the country shares in that dream. Almost everyone has a book hiding inside them somewhere. Or at least, back when the study was done in the early 2000s, the ambition …

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