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Week #2 Planning Your Book & Organizing Your Story

Module 2

Planning Your Book & Organizing Your Story
How do you eat an elephant? One forkfull at a time.
Your family history book project is much the same.
The way you’ll get some version of it done is by creating a plan and executing the plan.
Go in stages.  It’s recommended that you don’t try to write in one go a book longer than La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust which, according to The Guinness Book of World Records  is a 13-volume work with 9,609,000 characters. Why? Cuz it's hard to get done something like that. Instead, you’re future audience is going to be so impressed that you put together a handful of inspiring stories about their family....adequately.  This lesson is all about sketching out the bones of your book. 

Module Structure

Planning & Organizing

Planning Your Book & Organizing Your Story
How do you eat an elephant? One forkfull at a time.
Your family history book project is much the same.

Editing Text

The simple way to edit typos. 

Typing or Dictating

The only way you're going to write your book is by writing a book and the more words you can get onto your Manuscript the prouder you'll be!

Writing Assignment #2 About The Author

Every book has a page called "About the author"...that's you!

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