But I'm not a writer! *wails*

So... I never thought I'd really say this, but apparently I'm writing a book. A rather boring book to most, maybe, and I'm not really convinced there's a need for it, and I certainly didn't mean to write it, but now... Yeah. I'm writing a book. An e-book to start out with, if it looks like anyone wants to read it I might work on getting it published. But there's an online writers' workshop going on in March that Mom thinks would advertise it, so since I've already got part of it done she's hoping I'll have it mostly finished by then. So yeah. I'm writing a book. *blinks*

Um, okay, so I'm kinda going at this backwards, but I'm a little bewildered at this turn of events, since till this morning I had no idea I was ever going to do something like this. What's it about? Advice on writing - dos, don'ts, warnings, thoughts, things that irritate me. Kind of a blend of the more technical side and the more aesthetic side of it, mostly drawn from what I've seen as a reader (of both books and fanfiction) and an editor.

Which just sounds... so incredibly, incredibly vain and pretentious. Seriously, I have zero confidence that I've got anything to say that hasn't been said many times better by people with far more right to say it. And it really sounds like something I should have a whole lot more experience to back me up in before I even pretend to have some kind of authority or something worthwhile to say.

But... I've been writing a few articles for a blogging community for advice to and from writers, and they were pretty well-received, so I edited them a bit into better shape for a more formal article, not intending to do anything with them, and never meaning for them to be anything more than articles. The last couple of times at our local Creative Circle I've read one of them - again, I didn't intend to (most people tend to find two- or three-page articles about such things as exclamation mark use and abuse boring, and give you odd looks if you say that you wrote it for fun because you like writing about things like that and yesss you actually do have that much to say about exclamation marks... *ahem*), but they asked if I'd been writing anything, and then they wanted to see it...

Anyway, they actually liked them, and then they said I really should write a book. And then Mom got into it, and said she really enjoyed them (she'd never seen any of them), and that they were interesting, and that I shouldn't just write a book with them "someday... maybe..." but right now.

So I'm writing a book.

*headdesk*

Someone, please, tell me what a stupid idea this is so I've got a good reason to give up before I make an idiot out of myself.