How to write a book – the short honest truth
Every author I know gets asked the same question: How do you write a book?
It’s a simple question, but it causes problems. On the one hand, it’s nice to have people interested in something I do. If I told people I fixed toasters for a living, I doubt I’d get many inquires. People are curious about writing and that’s cool and flattering. Rock on.
But on the other hand, the hand involving people who ask because they have an inkling to do it themselves, is that writing books is a topic so old and so well trod by so many famous people that anyone who asks hoping to discover secret advice is hard to take seriously.
Here’s the short honest truth: 20% of the people who ask me are hoping to hear this – Anyone can write a book. They want permission. The truth is you don’t need any. There is no license required. No test to take. Your book idea is worth writing if you think it is. Writing, as opposed to publishing, requires almost no financial or physical resources. A pen, paper and effort are all that has been required for hundreds of years. If Voltaire, Marquis de Sade and Marina Nemat could write in prison, then you can do it in suburbia, at lunch, at work, or after your kids go to sleep. You will always find excuses if you want them and most people do. Why? Writing is work. No matter how smart you are or how great your idea is, you will have to put in the time and no one else can do it for you.
It helps to kill the magic: a book is just a bunch of writing. Anyone can write a book. It might be bad or be incomprehensible, but so what: it’s still a book and many published authors haven’t done any better.
Nothing is stopping you right now from collecting all of your elementary school book reports, a years worth of emails you wrote, or drunken napkin scribbles, binding them together at Kinkos for $20, slapping a title on the cover, and qualifying as an author. Want to write a good book? Ok, but get in line since most pro authors are still trying to figure that out too.
Writing a good book, compared to a bad one, involves one thing. More work. No one wants to hear this, but if you take two books off any shelf, I’ll bet my pants the author of the better book worked harder than the author of the other one. Call it effort, study, practice, or whatever you like. Sure there are tricks here and there, but really writing is a kind of work. I like this though: it means anyone who puts in enough time can actually write well. Some of our best writing comes from ordinary people from all walks of life.
Getting published. 30% of the time the real thing people are asking is how do you find a publisher. As if there wasn’t a phone book or, say, an Internet-thingy where you can look this stuff up (start with Jane Friedman’s website). Writers-market is literally begging to help writers find publishers. Many publishers, being positive on the whole idea of communication, put information on how to submit material on their website. And so do agents. The grand comedy of this is how few writers follow the instructions. That’s what pisses off all the editors: few writers do their homework.
The sticking point for most people who want to be authors is, again, the work. They want to hear a secret that skips over the work part. Publishers are rightfully picky and they get pitched a zillion books a day. It takes effort to learn the ropes, send out smart queries, and do the research required to both craft the idea for a book, and then to propose it effectively. So while writing is a rejection prone occupation, even for the rock-stars, finding a publisher is not a mystery. In fact the whole game is self-selective: people who aren’t willing to do the work of getting published are unlikely to be capable of the work required to finish a decent manuscript.
But that said – it’s easier today to self-publish than ever. People look down on self-publishing, but I don’t see why. When people buy books it’s not like they care who published them (“Oh, I don’t read Random House books, sorry”): they only care who recommended or reviewed the book. But again, our tragically unpopular companion, work, is required to self-publish so many prefer to keep asking writers how they got published instead of just doing it themselves. You can read what I learned from self-publishing the first time here (although the technology and options have improved since then).
Being famous and wealthy: Now this is the kicker. About 50% of the time the real thing people want to know is how to become a famous millionaire rock-star author person. As if a) I qualified, b) I could explain how it happened, or c) I’d be willing to tell.
First, this assumes writing is a good way to get rich. I’m not sure how this lie started but writing, like most creative pursuits, has always been a less than lucrative lifestyle. Even if a book sells well, the $$$ to hour ratio will be well below your average corporate job, without the health benefits, sick days, nor the months where you can coast by without your boss noticing. These days people write books after they’re famous, not before. A book can help you gain professional credibility, but then it’s more of a marketing project than a writing project, isn’t it?
And if the only books you read are bestsellers, well, you have a myopic view of the publishing world. Over 100k books are published in the US annually, and few sell more than a few thousand copies. What causes books to sell may have little to do with how good a book is, as we’ve all been mystified by the abysmal bestsellers and surprised by amazing books few seem to know about. Either way, to justify the effort you’ll need reasons other than cash.
Discouraged yet? Here is the upside: I love writing books. I love reading books. Books have profound powers and they’ve changed my life so many times. Maybe the bittersweet challenge of chasing words into sentences suits you. If you want to do this you have my support. GO YOU. Sincerely. I am behind you. But thinking about writing isn’t writing. Talking about it isn’t either. Commit to 10 hours of effort (basically a weekend or two). Write an outline or even just a few pages of a chapter. Take a course that focuses on actual writing and getting feedback. If it feels hard but rewarding, keep going. If it doesn’t, well I think you know.
Here are some practical next steps:
- The single best website to learn more about writing and publishing books – Jane Friedman
- How To Start a Book Project – specific advice for tackling a book sized effort.
- Is Your Book Idea Good? I’ll tell you here
- 28 Things No One Tells You About Publishing
- How To Get From An Idea To a Book – a bit harsh, and focused on publishing, but explains the steps and the time you’ll need
- Writing Hacks: Part 1 – Starting – What to do when the page is blank.
- Part 2 of ‘How To Write a Book’ is here, where I answer the best comments.
- Time-lapsed video of a writer writing an essay – amazing and revealing
- Confessions of a Self Published author – here’s what I learned from self publishing my last book.
- Writer’s Market. How to find a publisher for your written work (more good advice here).
- National Novel Writing Month – You must check this out.
- Or leave a comment below. I am, despite the curmudgeonly vibe, happy to answer thoughtful questions.
- Austin Kleon’s book writing flowchart
- Preview image credit
[Light editing: 10/7/2019, 2/4/2021]
I also feel that when writing, people really expose themselves (when it is fiction). They have to open up to their audience and through their writing, reveal themselves to others. This may be really hard for some people to do. In non-fiction, you have to make a stand and that means offending some people sometimes.
So it takes effort, interest and courage too.
Very comprehensive and useful article indeed! I think one good indicator of do-I-have-all-the-germs-to-be-best-seller-author is to start a blog and check how many hits are you getting. It will also give good idea to prospective author what people are interested to know about, what gets ‘hit!’, what gets on top of digg.
“If Voltaire and Marquis de Sade could write in prison, than you can do it in suburbia” – If you can write this without knowing the first thing about English grammar, I guess anyone CAN write. I stopped reading right there, by the way. If you can’t tell the difference between “than” and “then,” you have no business giving other people advice.
My advice to YOU? Take this page off of the internet, look up your third-grade English teacher on classmates.com, and beg him/her to allow you to sit in on his class again for a year. Then (that’s “then,” not “THAN”) you might be qualified to pick up a keyboard.
I am an avid reader and have even managed to get a book published (a techie how-to book). However, like most aspiring writers, want I really want to do is write fiction — short stories or novels. My problem is that even though I have a two-book a week reading habit and can string together narratives fairly easily, I suck at writing dialog. I’ve tried various writing courses and online references, and of course there’s no better way to learn than just by doing, but I still seem to have a block on how to naturally weave dialog into a story.
I’m not looking for a panacea, but any pointers to resources or advice would be much appreciated. I know that fiction may not be your focus, but I’m always looking for advice wherever I can find it.
Thanks for the great article, by the way!
I think one problem is the lack of enthusiasm that comes in when the project is 30% complete. Starting is easy. Enthusiasm gets you going. But once you have written 30% the long grind starts.
The end seems a long long way away. At 70% you can see the end – the enthusiasm comes back. Getting you through the middle bit is the difficult bit. That’s when it’s tempting to give up.
I have a few ways to get through this:
– you need a rigorous schedule – mine was “4 pages a day” – (you can have a day off but the next day you need to write 8 :-)
– tell all your friends “I’m writing a book” don’t do it in secret – that way you can’t back out easily – challenge yourself
– get reader feedback at an early stage (if possible) even if it’s only one reader it feels that you’re not totally wasting your time.
Don’t worry about about spelling and typos just churn out the pages. Lot’s of people can spell well and I’m not one of them.
Worry about content – say something Have fun – try enjoy the process – this is especially difficult in the middle period.
/Joe
Dear unpublished: thanks for finding the typo! Maybe next time you’ll be proud enough of what you’ve written to put your name on it? :)
Hi David:
On fiction – I’ve written an (unpublished) novel and I’m working on a 2nd, so I do have interests there. It’s harder to write and harder to publish, no doubt, but i can point to stuff that’s been useful. I’m even less of an expert on fiction, but it is something I’m interested in and have studied.
The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner. Best single book on the craft of fiction I’ve found. While there are other books that give more advice or techniques, this is the book that simultaneously sharpens my writing sense and gets me psyched up because of how well Gardner writes. He does touch on dialog, but it’s not the focus of the book (I’ve never seen a book specifically on dialog that was memorable, but I’ll check my shelves).
Anyway, I’ve had many books on writing recommended to me on writing fiction, even by other writers, but I’ve found it’s very personal – good advice, written poorly, is hard to take if the advice is on writing itself. Reading fiction can often be the best way to go – pick writers who you think are good at dialog and read them to death (David Mamet comes to mind, as does George Saunders). Playwright’s are also good bets as dialog is everything to their narratives.
@Unpublished_but_better_than_you
Lighten up. Being a good writer has nothing to do with impressing your English teacher. It is all about writing something someone is actually interested in reading.
If this article was about “How to become an editor,” than your comment would be valid. :P
Thanks for posting this. I appreciate the distinction you made between writing a book, and writing a book someone would want to read. (You were more polite about it.)
Also, I plan to be back, when I’ve time to follow the links.
Dear Unpublished:
In your criticism of the author, you wrote: “If you tell the difference between than and then, you have no business giving other people advice.”
Don’t you realize that when you write a sentence using “if,” you should have a “then” somewhere in it? You should have written: “If you can’t tell the difference between “than” and “then,” THEN….
You are a sad individual, obviously.
To the Author: Nice article. I enjoyed it.
To Unpublished_but_better_than_you: It was a TYPO, not a grammatical travesty. Get over yourself.
I’ve never ever ever never neber eber made that mistake, but kudos to the author for graciously acknowledging his mistake and avoiding the flame.
On the plus side, it did get one anonymous reader to write. Maybe the secret to writer’s block is to read articles like this and search for grammar problems.
I even managed to get a few sentences written! Thanks, Scott Scott!
And here is possibly how a modern dialog goes.
Scary, isn’t it? Great article Scott.
Methinks if you can write a blog, you can certainly write a book! I’ve written over a thousand posts… (whacks self in head) WOW! I coulda written a book!
There is a strong parallel between writing a book and giving a talk. In both cases there are many more in the audience or reading the book and a strong desire to be published / give the talk. Barcamp is a good place to dip your toe in speaking and the advice to start a blog is good in terms of writing.
The earlier comments on this post looked at the advantages of writing. I’d agree, just like giving talks, writing forces you to make your mind up. So as well as starting a blog, I’d suggest you try giving talks on your chosen subject.
Lastly as someone (reference?) once said the person who gains the most from giving a talk is the speaker. I think Andrew Savikas and Chris Anderson would agree that this applies equally to writing a book. The reader / audience can gain a lot, sometimes an immense amount, but you only ever get the highlights in the book / talk and this has been tuned for a particular audience, which is vital for talks and books.
I just finished writing my first book “Exploring Multimedia for Designers” and I can attest to the truth of this article. It was a ton of work, especially since it’s something I did in addition to a regular job.
I think there is in fact a cost to writing, the opportunity cost. And while there may not be much to say about the art of writing (everyone writes differently), there may be plenty to say about the art of staying alive while practising it.
Great article, even with the grammatical malfeasance that so upset Unpublished. And might I just add, it’s no wonder he’s unpublished – probably spends far too much time worrying about dangling his participles.
Other helpful advice is to not try writing when you have young children or old houses. Both take up way too much time and energy and that writing thing just gets pushed right to the side.
Very inspiring article. Thank you.
the biggest tip would be to be controversial, that will more easily get you a book deal then any other method.
Thanks for a great article. I’ve been toying with the idea of self-publishing for a long while and I think that is a nice route for some maybe not for everyone. If someone out there has something that they want to do for friends and family and aren’t concerned with a larger audience then I say go for it. It is affordable and you will have a cool experience in the process. I plan to do so in the very near future.
Anyway, all I really wanted to say was that this was a great article.
I’ve got lots of thoughts inline with my book plots which I want to get down and I’ve found that mind-mapping software (e.g. freemind) has helped me though you could get trapped.
Thanks for great advice, fantastic resource and helpful comments on the topic. It’s given me inspiration to try to finish one of the three one-third completed books I have.
As for “Unpublished” , as the French might say ” crapeau dans le chapeau”
Let me summarize the article: writing takes work. That’s quite a how-to.
First of all, writers write. If you don’t write all the time now, you are a long way away from writing a book.
Real writers just want their work to be read. They are not necessarily looking to be famous.
As a new author, expect many rejections from publishers. Also, if you are looking for a literary agent, be wary of scammers. Do your homework on them before you select them. Be prepared to spend thousands of dollars on a literary agent, good editor, etc.
Like acting and other creative endeavors, you also need to market your self and product. You will need to work to find book signing deals and you will likely need to market these yourself.
There are few shortcuts and they are rarely available to new authors.
Ah, one more thing. If you are a writer that writes regularly but not professionally, you will probably find that getting your book published takes more work than writing the book.
Excellent post. Well said on all fronts.
The Anonymous Novelist dealt with just this a week ago. He’s also really funny. novelistanon.blogspot.com
Writing is indeed hard work. I think it’s the no heavy lifting part that makes people think it’s easy. ;-)
–Mike (who wrote his first books with a manual typewriter)
Unpublished-but-better-than-you!
Did anyone ever tell you that you are a pompous ass? If not, THEN let me be the first.
One word: nanowrimo
Google it if you don’t know what it is. It’s just around the corner.
Very nice post. Probably the first thing I’ve read in a long time that actually makes me want to write.
@Michael A. Banks
I dimly remember typewriters. Sigh. Takes me way back, and as Wrai Ballard used to say, I wish it would leave me there.
As someone who has written more than 30 books, it definitely doesn’t get easier as you go on and you don’t necessarily get paid more either. But I can’t see quitting.
Do it for love.
The good news is that in spite of the Internet and electronic publishing, the book seems here to stay.
As was said originally, writing doesn’t require a lot of investment up front and we all waste a lot of time every day.
Good article and good posts!
I agree, it’s very easy to write and publish an book, but it takes work to make a great one.
I write novels and got sick of sending out manuscripts to publishing businesses that were so busy struggling to survive, going out of business, or busy being bought up by international conglomerates to seriously consider new work.
So I stopped — not writing books, just trying to appeal to these businesses. Now I’m micropress publishing: actually making the books myself.
It’s been a wonderful shift in how I think about myself as a culture-worker, and also means that I’m focusing on readers, not businesspeople. Sure, I only have a small group of readers, but I have readers. There’s reality to my being an author, which there wouldn’t be if I was still waiting for someone to take six months to write back, saying his press isn’t taking on any new authors (unless, of course, they’ve been on “Big Brother”, in which case their crayon-scribbled biography would get a huge advance).
Micropress publishing is labour intensive, but gets more efficient as you go, and teaches you a lot about the publishing process, so if you do end up dealing with commercial publishers later on, you’ll have a respect and understanding for what it takes to make a book.
A while back, I outlined I’d learned about the process for the No Media Kings website:
http://nomediakings.org/doityourself/doityourself_book_press.html
To those looking for advice about writing novels, I would recommend learning about story structure. This will help you plan and write a coherent, satisfying story, rather than starting at page one and getting lost or leaving your readers bewildered. A few helpful books for this are:
The Weekend Novelist, by Brett Norris, Robert J. Ray
http://www.acblack.com/Catalogue/details.asp?sku=1421797&dept_id=8
The Comic Toolbox by John Vorhaus
http://www.silmanjamespress.com/book_description/comic_toolbox.html
(Even though it’s about comedy writing, the principles are still perfect for creating a tight novel-arc. Vorhaus has another book called Creativity Rules, which is also very good.)
The biggest piece of advice I’d give to anyone wanting to write a novel is to NOT think about marketing, book proposals, or any of that other bumpf that businesspeople encourage you to. That way “Writer’s Block” lies (which is not real; merely a product of worrying about what others will think when you should be just making things up).
You have to create a work from your own original mind yourself. Most online self-pubishing resources I’ve found are geared toward writing non-fiction “how-to” guru books, not novels.
While you will have to think about these principles later, when you’re learning to sell your work, don’t let it twist your creative process. If you try to reverse-engineer something successful — which is what agents and publishers at book festival breakout sessions will advise you to do — you’ll be as badly off as those Hollywood types who think that remaking “Enter the Dragon” is a good idea.
Good luck!
– Hamish MacDonald
http://www.hamishmacdonald.com
I like how worked up “unpublished-but-better-than-you” got over a simple typo. Pretty sure the author knows the difference between then and than. Relax.
hi i enjoyed the read
Great article, written by the author of a great book, writing for a great publisher
I very much enjoyed it. You might want to take a look at a similar article targeted at technical articles, written by another terrific author, Scott Meyers: http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice_frames.html which is also quite good.
Thanks again, it was a fun read. (If knowledge of English grammar and spelling were required, I’d be in big trouble. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “English is my second language, unfortunately, I don’t have a first language.”)
-jesse
I’m just finishing up on a book now, on deadline, which is the only way I know how to work, I’m ashamed to say. The single most important thing: write something, every single day. It’s best to have a daily quota. (500 words, not a lot, will give you a book in a year – that’s how Graham Greene did it.)
This requires a truly monumental amount of self-discipline. A lot of people think that being a writer = a nice lifestyle. In some ways, it does, but realize that being your own boss means just that: someone is still forcing you to knuckle down and produce every day, it’s just that this person is you.
Also, a lot of people have a romantic misperception of the average writer’s life. if you think being a novelist means padding around in sweats in a picturesque mountain cabin all day, guess again. I know several full-time novelists, some of them quite successful, and they travel more than most salesmen. If they’re lucky and make decent money off their own books, that usually means book tours, which are grueling, weeks-long slogs during which you fly to a new, uninteresting city every single day (not that they get to see anything besides the airports and hotel rooms) and answer the same questions over and over again. Those are the lucky ones. Most of the rest have to teach, which means more travel to unexciting places and reading a lot of really bad manuscripts and then trying to find something constructive to say to the people who wrote them. Most of the novelists I know are frustrated that no matter how well they do, they still don’t get much time to write. The ironic thing about writing is that it’s a profession that tends to attract homebodies, but if you want to do well, you can’t really be a homebody.
I do it because I really like to write, but I have to admit, I’m dreading the promotional side of it, especially the travel, when this book is done.
An interesting and inspiring article. I appreciate the trouble you took to spell this out for people, and with humor too.
Since I really am an English professor, I am required by law :-) to say that the past tense of ‘tread’ is ‘trod.’ I just mention this because it’s the kind of thing that spellcheck doesn’t pick up, and because when I used to work as a fiction editor, I know that if we had two equally publishable books to choose from, we’d pick the one that required the least copyediting and proofreading.
But I don’t mean this to detract from the usefulness of this punchy, entertaining, helpful article.
I read a comment by Randy Alcorn the other day stating that what most people want is to have written a book. Some people have the life todo lists and writing a book is often on it. If that is a person’s goal, then there is nothing to do but muscle one’s way through it, but for anyone else I would say that if you don’t enjoy writing then find something else to do. Writing is hard work. If you are proficient enough and you are writing about a subject that publisher thinks will sell then publishing is not an issue, but if your writing bad or the subject won’t sell then you end up with a manuscript that will have a limited number of readers. Given a choice between a well know author and a first time author, the publisher will always favor the well known author. Even among the books that get published, most of them have very limited success. Writing books is not the path to fame and fortune.
I have a little secret of my own for writing dialogs. Talk to yourself in the mirror and talk alone out loud in traffic jams or in the shower. It works for realistic dialogs. You can record them or not. By doing that your mind gets used to have internal dialogs and it helps a lot when you write. Just be careful to do it alone.
¿Having a fight with yourself? Is not very common to regular people they might think you are crazy!
By the way sorry about my English but I’m sure that if all this were written in Spanish you guys would be much more in trouble than me right now.
Great post and I would say the key to writing a book is to literally write it one page at a time. One things I tell folks who are “blocked” is to put away all the books in their office until they are done writing their own. (thesaurus and dictionary – don’t get packed.)
I guess I join the thousands of people who say “I want to write a book! Okay, so how do I begin?” I know what I want to write about, I just don’t know if other people would be interested enough to buy and read it. I guess that’s not what I should think. I should just sit down and start writing what is in my heart and see how it looks on paper.
There are a lot of good ideas here and hopefully I can put them to use. Thanks
Thanks Scott and all others who had positive feedback. I’ve been thinking of writing a book for at least 10 years and have started several times. This time I am committed to see it through.
Thank you for your honesty and integrity, things I don’t find in this life. I remain a “fan”,of you and I think you are a life force in writing for those who would like to tell their story. Thank you for the inspiration to tell mine.
I need help. I’m a middle aged woman that’s suffered 2 heart attacks and a severe stroke that took my whole right side and has had to battle my way back vertually on my own. Case in point-this happened within less than 36 hrs. last Dec. and I’m still waiting to receive therapy. I need to exercise a few demons and felt a book just might do it. Right now, I have just purchased my new flash drive and need simple help, like do I have to write and then print in double space? When you answer, please “Idiot-Proof” your answer. All I’m asking for is simply the most basic How To instructions, to get started. I’ve gotta take it one step at a time or I’ll be too overwhelmed to finish. It was a “Trip Into Terror”,and coupled with actual abuse at the hands of medical personnel. It’s a story that most people would be afraid to tell but needs to be said. How many more has this happened to? We need to keep it from happening again! I’ve lost alot due to all that happened, but I’ve still got a mouth. It even works correctly, sometimes. Anyway, can you help a decrepit old lady out? Can’t wait to hear from you. I’m going to try no matter what.Thanks for your time.-Joyce E.
Just a line to say that I’m an aspiring musician,and I feel like starting my first book.
This Post was the first that I’ve looked into for some gettin’ started advice and you all have helped greatly. Oh-yes, Unpublished a little word for you to remember about the creative process.”It’s not how the damn thing looks,it’s if it has something to say that actually matters!” Thanks for the help guys “D-Mo”
(Then, suddenly, there’s a quiet female voice, slightly off-key, singing softly in the background…)
“Dear Sir, (Or Madam?)
Will you read MY book?
It took me years to write,
will you take a look?
Based on a novel by a man named Lear
(And I need a job!)
So, I want to be a…
Paperback Writer!!!
Paperback Writer.
…….. ”
(And, the off-key voice fades into a quite, “Click…Click-Click-Click” as the woman Catt continues her determined journey across her old and worn keyboard — The keyboard with a whole worn completely through from her ragged nails into the ‘E’ key….)
[Thanks for the info., folks!!! Catt]
Everytime I think about writting a book feelings begin to overcome me…sounds stupid right? I am beginning to believe this is something that I need to do. I am a true beginner, what is a good book to start with (how to get started)?
I’m 17 years old and have tried writing fantasy and other types of novels before, but dared bring none to publishers (because I’m still at that age when I am getting better every year). I have a story I would really like published one day, and I haven’t finished it the way I’d like to yet.
Could you please give me advice on this: since I live in a European country, is it smart to write a novel in a language other than English? I’ve read somewhere that such a novel would be worthless, but I can’t write it as well as I could in my country’s language.
By the way, your a, b and c on the “being famous and wealthy” topic were great :D
hey im 15 and im writing a book and i was wondering what you do when u get writers block because im getting it alot now im on my 1050th page of my book, its good so far i think and i was just wondering if you had any tips on how to get rid of writers block or on how to get inspiration?
great article by the way lots of help :D
I finally found the courage to sit down and write after many years of writing thoughts in a note book. I love the way the charaters start to come a live. I also love the way i wake in the middle of the night with ideas. Thanks fot letting me know to just to keep trying
I am a surgical RN,,and I know nothing about writing a book,,but I want to write one related to things that are important and maybe useful to others (nothing to do with the medical field),,my concerns is how to start the book,,do i do a outline first or do I just jump in a start writing and organize later,,what program should I use on my pc??? AND Unpublished_but_better_than_you,,,STOP being so anal retentive,, ;)
Well I am ot sure if I can write a book but I can write. i have been keeping a journal since I was in highschool and I am now in my upper 30’s. I would love to write a book about , well just my life. It is nothing great but life as a Catskill Mountain Middle class Drama queen, not. I found myself starting to read your article and before I could even get to the how to write a book part I found myself closing out of this website and starting to write. I startd writing as if I was writing the introduction of a book. Interesting since I do not know the first thing about writing a book, I just have alot of issues in life that I would like to talk about, from childhood up to my adult life. Who knows where I am going with this “writing a book” but hey you never know!
Until then…