BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Journals How do you know when your Journal has BOOK written

all over it? I haven't Journaled for a long time. I stopped because I felt I had said enough. BUT a trusted friend read parts of it and said "This could be a book!" How can one know that? It did start out as a Journal but with so many flashbacks it sort of took on a life of it's own. It's not really a story, just a bunch of small ones all woven together. I am not a big novel reader. I read mostly research and referrence stuff, always have, so I'm not too familiar with the structure of actual novels.