I've written a book. It's called Teal, and it's best classified as a YA sci-fi novel. Teal is 346 pages long - or more precisely, 102,282 words comprised of 550,713 characters. (Characters meaning letters, numbers, and punctuation - not individuals in the story.) It took me some 18 months to finish the first draft, then another year to rewrite it in 1st-person instead of 3rd-person (well worth it), after which came another year of reworking and rewriting the story to the point where I feel like it truly represents my best effort with these particular characters. As you might imagine, the road to finishing Teal has been... "interesting," to say the least...