All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem. It may be a problem of where to obtain the facts or how to organize the material. It may be a problem of approach or attitude, tone or style. Whatever it is, it has to be confronted and solved.

“writing a book” is actually about writing a pleasure-giver, and is at best irrelevant and often harmful when applied to a problem-solver. So let’s set aside that faulty intuition and start with what matters most: your book’s promise to its reader.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me. In a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.