I’ll take “Questions that have no answer,” for $500, Alex

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And of course that question would be, “What is the correct way to write a book?”

I think this is the question that keeps writers up at night, whether we’re published or not. Is there a right way to write a book?

Sure, there are LOADS of How-To books out there that will say things like, “Don’t head hop,” “Stay away from adverbs,” “Don’t overdo your description,” which we all take as gospel truth…then we go to the library and promptly find that NYT best-selling novel (or no...