By the way, I think I'm too dumb/old for treechat.

nah, there's a bit of a learning curve

you posted a thread, so you're off to a good start

if you have questions just ask me from inside any thread my mentioning me metamitya

one idea is that treechat is threaded. it's designed for a series of short to medium length messages.. so for example your first post might be better broken up so that we can branch off each of the paragraphs

treechat is an interesting tool for developing a book. there are a couple of other authors here actually ruthheasman and Mudfun