I read about a memoirist who studied her journals for two and a half years to look for major themes to write about. Yikes! I hope to speed up that process.
Then she wrote a 700 page book that had to be edited down, a little. Encouraging actually to know that this task has many paths to success and although mine may begin on a dirt road through a cornfield in Minnesota it will hopefully end up on a quiet path through the woods of success, location to be determined.