By Kate Hanley<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason why 80\u00a0percent\u00a0of Americans (that\u2019s 200 million people) say they want to write a book, yet only .04\u00a0percent\u00a0of them actually do it in any given year: Writing a book is no small undertaking.<\/p>\n

Doable? Absolutely. Easy? Not so much.<\/p>\n

Especially if you\u2019re falling prey to one or some of the most common obstacles to actually getting a book out into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,20,78,11],"tags":[740,741,742,743,744,745,746],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-columns","category-news","category-opportunities-to-learn","category-tactics","tag-book","tag-detour","tag-kate-hanley","tag-publishing","tag-roadblocks","tag-write-your-book-like-a-boss","tag-writing-obstacles"],"yoast_head":"\n