Chapter Plan
Gives each chapter one thing it changes in the reader's mind, and names it.
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Running it, start to finish
- State in one sentence what the chapter changes for the reader.
- Check what it assumes is actually established earlier.
- End on something unresolved rather than a summary.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Requires each chapter to name what it changes for the reader, or be cut.
- Maps what the chapter assumes from earlier ones, the most common structural fault in books.
- Ends on an unresolved implication rather than a summary, which is what carries readers onward.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Do not open with a recap. Readers skip it. Opening on the tension this chapter resolves gets them into the material immediately.
- Books are lost between chapters. The ending matters more than the opening for whether the reader continues, and it is usually given less attention.
- Cut the good chapter in the wrong place. A chapter that does not advance the book's argument is a fine essay that weakens the whole.
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