How to write a book???

Yesterday I met a friend and they were the third one in a row to suggest writing a book. It was when I told them about my primary school friends, who somehow appear again in my life, one after another. They said: "actually, I would love to see a series about what you experience... but maybe you should start with a book".

But I have never written a book before. I know how to blog, how to tweet, toot... I love writing.

Where to start? Pls help!
#book #bookwriting

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@jupe this is pithy and inaccurate but a book is just a poem where every line is a chapter

start by thinking about how you want your ideas to be structured and how you might put them together in a way which “rhymes” and “resonates”. get a solid structure that you feel confident in (but don't force yourself to follow it too closely). figure out what the structure is “saying” and why it's important

then just fill it out with enough words to make it work

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