Build Your Table of Contents

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Build Your Table of Contents

Turn your book from an idea into something with an actual shape.

How to use this

A table of contents at this stage isn't the polished version that ends up in your published book, it's a working map. It gives your book a skeleton you can see, move around, and build from. Chapter titles don't need to be clever or final, a placeholder like "Chapter Three, Releasing the Past" is completely enough.

Once it exists, this becomes one of the most useful tools in your whole writing process. On days you don't know where to start, open it and pick whichever chapter is calling to you, you don't have to write in order.

Your Structure

Which structure are you working with? This shapes how you think through your chapters.

Build Your Chapters

Even five or six chapters is enough to start. For each one, the most important question isn't what it covers, it's what it moves. As you build this, ask: what does this chapter do for the reader? What do they know, feel, or carry differently by the end of it that they didn't at the start?

If a chapter doesn't move something in the reader, it may not belong in the book yet.

Ideas That Don't Fit Yet

Some material won't fit anywhere in your current table of contents. That's fine, it's not lost, just not for this book, or not for now. Hold it here instead of forcing it somewhere it doesn't belong.

Your Table of Contents

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Clear your structure, all chapters, and start over?
Every chapter is a step in the reader's journey. Give them a map.
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