Behind the Scenes of Raising Your Resolution: There Was Actually a Part 2?!
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Raising Your Resolution is rather thick for a business skills book, but it actually had a Part 2.
However, I cut it out entirely in the middle of editing, and it became a phantom Part 2. That is the behind-the-scenes story.
What I had written in Part 2 was about "hypotheses."
The exchange when I cut the hypothesis section went like this.
Dear ○○,
Thank you for your continued support.
Thank you for checking.
Yes, I also think it is rather long, so I would like to discuss it with you, including the structure.
Personally, I am thinking of cutting the hypothesis part (about 80,000 characters) entirely, and then cutting items one by one as we discuss.
An email to my editor, dated December 10, 2021
Why There Was a "Hypothesis" Part, and Why I Cut It
The reasons I had been writing the hypothesis part were as follows.
- Because the resolution of a problem or a solution is itself a kind of hypothesis
- Because we build new hypotheses on the basis of heightened resolution
So I felt that resolution and hypotheses needed to be thought of as two sides of the same coin (in fact, some of it remains in the resolution book). Another factor was that I had also published several slides on ways of thinking about hypotheses.
But... once I started writing, that part alone grew to about 80,000 characters, and it looked like the book would end up 1.5 times as thick as the current resolution book, so this time I shelved the "hypothesis" part.
As for the "hypothesis" part that became a phantom, I added a lot to it in one go around Golden Week this year, and it is now a manuscript of about 220,000 characters. I once again think it was good that I separated it (laughs).
If the opportunity arises, I hope to present it as a "hypothesis book," separate from the "resolution book," so if you are interested, please wait a little while.
This was a little behind-the-scenes story about how the "resolution book" came to be by cutting the manuscript quite drastically. I am sharing it with you, my readers, as a bit of trivia: if you have the "resolution book," you can remark, "Apparently that book was actually about 1.5 times longer."