The speech language pathologist who worked with me, day after day, retraining my reading and writing skills was right there. So was the physiotherapist who had helped me learn to walk again.

I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...