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HOW TO FLESH OUT THE EBOOK STRUCTURE

Once you know what sections you are going to have in your eBook, it’s time to figure out what needs to go in each one.

Now there are a number of ways you can do this, but the best way to begin with is probably to repeat the process you just went through and work out how each section will be structured.

Don’t get worried at so much talk of structure – in reality it’s actually your best friend! You see, what we’re doing here is breaking down your eBook into progressively smaller chunks, so that when you actually come to write it (which can be a little scary the first time you sit down to do it), you won’t be faced with a monster of an eBook that needs to be written.

Instead, you’ll be looking at lots of bite sized little pieces of information that need to be written. This isn’t nearly as daunting as you’ll be able to tick each individual one off your plan as you write. And believe me, that’s a great feeling!

Think about it for a moment. Which would you rather do:

• Sit down with the thought that you have a whole eBook to write?

• Sit down with the task of writing a single chapter of that eBook?

• Sit down to write one section of one chapter – which may not amount to much more than a single page?

I know which one I would choose – which is exactly why I always write eBooks that way myself.

An example of fleshing out a particular section can be seen by taking a look at what I did when I made notes for writing this chapter you’re reading right now:

Chapter Three – Turning that idea into a fully fledged eBook

• Getting a structure together

• Fleshing out your structure

• Do you have enough material?

• How many pages?

• Images or no images? Benefits and drawbacks

• How is it going to look? Cover, typeface, etc.

These are very basic notes, and I had a sheet of 8 ½” x 11″ paper on hand which I scribbled down ideas that came to me that I wanted to include while I was writing the eBook, but that’s all you really need to get you going. If you do this for each chapter, you’ll be well away and churning out those pages faster than you might think.

Well, now you’ve read my plan for this chapter so you know what’s coming next, right?

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SO HOW DO WE BUILD A GOOD EBOOK STRUCTURE?

The best place to start is by thinking about what your eBook is going to be about and seeing if you can break that down into chunks. Don’t worry about the number of chunks you end up with – there is no magic number and what works for one book might fall flat on its face for another. You might have five or you may even end up with twenty or more. It simply doesn’t matter, so long as what you have covers the subject adequately and doesn’t leave you wondering if you have enough for a whole book after all.

You will often find that several areas will be blatantly obvious to you from the title and subject of your book. For example, a book about saving money could include sections on saving money on groceries, saving money on clothes, saving money on telephone and cell phones, and so on. Alternatively, of course, you could break that subject down and write a separate eBook on each topic (remember what we learned about niches and making sure you are aiming the book at a specific audience?) A book on internet marketing might have a number of different chapters each focusing on a different area of opportunities. No matter what your book is about, some of the sections will naturally fall into place and this is always how you should start.

Once you have jotted down all the ideas for topics which would form part of your book, take a look at them and work out whether or not there is any particular order they should go in. If we take this eBook as an example, you will see that after a short introduction, I tackle the subject of ideas first. Then comes the section on creating your eBook, then a look at what else you need to provide to create a complete package, and finally the topic of promoting and selling your eBook.

Now it’s fairly obvious in this case that this is the only order the sections can go in. It would be confusing if I started off by telling you how you can sell the book you have written. You’d be sitting there wondering “What book? I haven’t even written one yet! I thought this eBook was supposed to tell me about writing them…”

And then you would be wondering whether you’d made such a good purchase after all. You might even ask for a refund.

That’s why a nice common sense, well ordered plan of action is necessary to help you break your idea down into sections that are not only manageable for you to write, but also manageable for the reader to read – and which will lead them smoothly through your eBook from the beginning to the end.

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