I had just finished designing The Book Of Numbers and I had no content ideas for the next book I had to design. I emailed my friend and he said, “Do Dante’s Divine Comedy […] you can say when you felt crummy in school and felt like hell, you read the book on it, redesigned it, and came out alive!!! :-)”
I didn’t want it to read like a book of poetry, though, so I changed a couple things.