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How Do You Outline Your Book – And Why?
The Benefits of Outlining and How to Outline
Outlining is the second step in my TOPIC book writing strategy. If you’ve decided on your book’s title and genre, you’re ready to outline.
Why Use Outlining For Your Book?
You may have heard of outlining – but why use it for your book?
When you outline, you create a top-down hierarchy that ensures you don’t miss anything out. You are creating a placeholder for all the information you’ll develop.
Outlining helps with planning and organising. It also helps avoid overwhelm. You can see the big picture AND the detail of your book, and how exactly they relate.
What Exactly IS Outlining?
Outlining is a process of stepwise decomposition. You group your book’s concepts into related areas.
As you can see the whole book’s structure, you keep everything related in the same place, you don’t repeat yourself and you don’t miss anything out.
Outlining puts you in control and helps you organise and structure your information.
How To Outline Your Book