What Is the Best Way to Write a Novel?

Shanghai Shen: What drives us to write, is that we want to figure out what our story is. And so those who are compelled to write could be about anthropomorphic animals or aliens but deep down, it's dealing with a very, very unsolved issue in your own story. So i'm using story structure and the collective unconscious as a means to figure out my own ship. Any dollar that comes into my bank is out by me sitting here and constructing these wild fantasies to figure outMy own ship is magic.