Nonfiction structure: organising around the reader's question
A working session on the structural problem that affects almost every practitioner-written nonfiction manuscript.
- 7:00pm EDT
- Tobias Reiner
Video slot — embed the recording here
About this session
Nonfiction authors write in the order they learned the material. Readers need it in the order their questions arrive. This session is about closing that gap.
We work through the chapter-purpose test live, look at how to identify chapters serving the author's framework rather than the reader, and cover what to do when the fix requires reordering the whole book.
Bring a chapter list — you will use it.
What you will take away
- The one-sentence chapter test you can run on your own outline
- How to spot chapters that exist to complete a model
- A method for reordering without rewriting everything
Tobias Reiner
Nonfiction Editor
Part of the working team at Winfrey Publishing — sessions are run by people who do the job, not by a marketing department.