This is a book about a book, written about a writer writing this book and the book within the book. 

From the Introduction:

When you read My Dumbest Idea Yet, you will see the times in which it was created reflected back to you through a warped kaleidoscope of action and dialogue.

You will come to understand the motivations of writers and of middle-aged spinsters, as well as the messiness of the creative process, on full display in this story: the horror of the blank page, the false starts, the brilliant ideas that come to nothing.

There is always panic when an author feels as though her story is slipping through her fingers and out of her control. This panic, as shown, not told in this tale, will become palpable to the reader.

It Was Inevitable

After writing more than 200 short stories and three very slim novellas featuring Citizen Jim, Chicken Sheets decides that the world is ready for a full-length Citizen novel.

She isn't sure if she can pursue this project to its completion, and psyches herself out enough to name the book My Dumbest Idea Yet.

In a whirlwind of a story spanning less than 100 pages, Chicken Sheets goes from trying to tease the germ of an idea for a Citizen Jim novel at a desk in her Little Hobbit House to the swaying deck of a ferry in the Gulf of Finland—and one of the most shocking endings of any story ever written.

ANY STORY. EVER. WRITTEN.