Paul, I have always heard everybody has one book in them; and it is usually a good place for it to stay! I have written a few chapters a handful of times, that is about as far as I can get. I have always felt like you could write a good book. You are smarter than the average bear and you have lived a life.
Some can just toss off a book. If I am to put together one worth reading it is going to have to be outlined and built block by block, by no means a light undertaking. As it happens, I listened to Waylon Jennings talking about writing "Waylon" earlier today. He had a ghost writer and it still took him three years to get it done!
Hu