At lunch this week, Lucy Bernholz explained that blogging was her way of procrastinating from doing a bunch of things on her todo list, including a bunch of writing. The irony, she noted, was that she probably wrote at least a book’s worth of blog posts during that time.

In her observation lies the kernel of truth that stayed in my head—how does a book get written?

One word at a time.

Just the same way a blog gets written.