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# A guidebook chapter in six weeks
- URL: https://freelance-desk.peachfin.site/a-guidebook-chapter-in-six-weeks/
- Published: 2025-03-21T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-12T21:27:34.000Z
- Description: Week by week: how a new chapter goes from a blank brief to forty checked listings.
- Author: Clara Weiss
- Tags: Guidebooks, #Import 2026-10-13 14:19

A new chapter takes six weeks from brief to delivery. Two are reporting, two are writing, one is checking and one is for everything that goes wrong.

## Weeks one and two

Walking, eating, and filling a notebook with addresses. I visit every listing at least once and the best ones twice, at different times of day.

## Weeks three and four

Writing in the evenings, and calling back in the mornings for the details I did not write down.

## Weeks five and six

Checking every address, phone number and price against the notebook, then delivering the chapter with a list of everything I could not confirm.