How the Hell Do You Write a Book? (2nd ed.)

I wrote my first book when I was in middle school-when I was maybe nine or ten years old. It was a mini-masterpiece, that book, in my memory. It had chapters. Pictures. A story. It even had covers and a binding, of sorts. I discovered, before I ever heard of the wonderful Sir Terry Pratchett, that writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. I have no idea what happened to that book, but I do know this: it kicked off a lifelong love affair with writing. So obviously I didn't write another b