So you want to write a book…

It being the new year - and the first year of a new decade - I went poking around the web and noticed a bunch of websites for people's New Year's Resolutions. A little further investigation revealed that "write a book" is, in some form or another, on an awful lot of people's lists (it was one of the 20 most popular goals on one web site I found).

Speaking as someone for whom "write a book" is more of a necessity than anything else, I have to wonder whether any of those people really know what ...