How to Structure Your Nonfiction Book

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You’re tackling a nonfiction book, and you’re making progress as you research and take notes, but you stare at all these ideas and wonder how to best present them. You know your book needs organization-how do you land on the best structure? How do you create it, craft it, build it?
I’ve got answers for you. In this video I walk you through 4 methods for how you can structure your nonfiction book...or almost any nonfiction project! You'll learn several classic outlines and a variety of techniques writers use to organize their content.
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16 июл 2024

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@lauryb 2 года назад

Introduction 1. Discovery: 2:53 2. Determine in advance: 5:34 3. Choose a classic structure: 9:14 4. Borrow a structure: 11:35

@annkroekerwritingcoach 2 года назад

Thank you so much, Laura! I'm trying to figure out how to add highlights-you gifted us with them!

@lauryb 2 года назад

@@annkroekerwritingcoach thank YOU for the video, Ann!

@salonso24 2 дня назад

Ann... So much thanks you for what you are giving us!! I was looking for a lot something like it, and in this few minuts you gave me a lot of clarity about the path to follow!!... So clean, so clear!!... God is huge in you!!... Thanks!!... I love you!!

@andredemers69 2 месяца назад

I organized the topics of my book with the table of contents; I added, removed, reorganized...the best way for me. Thanks for this video. Dominique

@annkroekerwritingcoach Месяц назад

That sounds like a smart way to think through your project at the developmental level. Thanks for sharing your process with us!

@andredemers69 2 месяца назад

My book is about scrapbooking techniques; I put a "quick tip" and link to one of my youtube videos to visualise the technique after every one of them.

@annkroekerwritingcoach Месяц назад

That's a great idea! One of my clients was wondering how she might do this herself-I'll pass along this tip. Thanks for sharing!

@IAmRickGreen 2 года назад

loved this Anne. The clarity in how you presented this insight was very refreshing. thanks for sharing

@annkroekerwritingcoach 2 года назад

Thanks so much for your comment, Rick! I missed it until just now, but I truly value this input. I hope you're working on a big project and feel even more confident you have a structure that suits it!

@creatiffocus Год назад

Thank you for this video. I truly appreciate it. I think I was stuck with making lists but I needed see the words in the circles. This helped so much because I kept reprinting an outline fill-in sheet because the list kept going wrong. I am visual at times and I think this tip worked tremendously.

@annkroekerwritingcoach Год назад

Mind Maps work the way my mind works, corralling ideas and creating order from chaos. Glad that tool is working well for you, too!

@karenk3593 Год назад

Same here! This was exactly what I needed to hear. The cluster idea will really help me break free from feeling stuck trying to figure out a linear outline. Thank you @Ann Kroeker.

@arvymidlifecrisis 8 месяцев назад

Thank you - I've listened to this 3 or 4 times and found it very inspiring 👏

@annkroekerwritingcoach 8 месяцев назад

I'm so glad! I hope you land on a structure that works well for you. And be sure to study how other books are structured by peeking at their TOCs!

@bboyudon Год назад

Great video. Love your tips and way you express them! Thank you

@annkroekerwritingcoach Год назад

Thanks for watching and taking time to comment, Adan.

@mainstreet3023 Год назад

So helpful! Thank you.

@betweenearthandsky4091 Год назад

I love the idea of discovery! Allowing the book writing process take you on the journey.

@annkroekerwritingcoach Год назад

It's often so much richer, isn't it, when we let the writing pull us along? Hope your book is developing nicely these past couple of months.

@jenniferhoward8406 3 года назад

So so good, Ann! This is such a gift to all of us stuck in the structure gloop! 😖

@annkroekerwritingcoach 3 года назад

I’m so glad you watched - what method do you think you’ll try? Did one approach seem like it could work?

@abouthomewithjennilisahowa9151 3 года назад

@@annkroekerwritingcoach Being memoir, I'm working on taking the narrative, story telling arc approach, but challenge is working out where to begin and end and taking a 'snapshot' of a specific time. (Just realised I'm in another RU-vid account, not sure how I managed that! 😂). Thank you so much for all you share.

@annkroekerwritingcoach 3 года назад

@@abouthomewithjennilisahowa9151 Memoir is one of the most challenging genres. I may try focusing a video on memoir structure in particular. Thanks for sharing!

@slh35661 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! I’ve been researching a topic but have been stuck on how to organize the story. You’ve given wonderful advice.

@annkroekerwritingcoach 11 месяцев назад

I’m thrilled! Which one do you think you’ll try?

@slh35661 11 месяцев назад

@@annkroekerwritingcoach the problem, cause, solution. I’ve been struggling with how to approach telling an historical perspective on a topic and to this point have ordered it as a timeline. However nobody will be engaged using a timeline for this information and the suggestion you made gave me a lightbulb moment on how it should be told.

@lebo3793 11 месяцев назад

The best advice I got so far 👌🏼

@p.c.8412 Год назад

Very useful, thanks, also well presented. Also, I appreciate not a lot of preamble or fluff, like many RU-vid helpful videos

@annkroekerwritingcoach Год назад

Thank you for this specific note. I'll continue to get right into it.

@drewbmth1314 Год назад

This was way more in depth and relevant to what I'm working on than any other video I've seen. Thanks a lot!

@annkroekerwritingcoach 11 месяцев назад

I’m so glad - sorry for the delayed response. Did you try one?

@drewbmth1314 11 месяцев назад

@@annkroekerwritingcoach I did! I sort of went with a hybrid between the classic and discovery approaches. What I'm working on involves a lot of research as well as theoretical ideas, so the classic approach helped me organize checkpoints that I knew I wanted to cover, and from there I connected from point to point using the discovery approach. I find it easier to use the discover approach when I'm writing my own ideas as opposed to putting research into writing. Thanks again, I really appreciate it. A lot of the videos I saw were covering self-help books which wasn't really translating to what I was working on.

@Sneakapeek09 7 месяцев назад

Great presentation! Thank you, Ann. Every creative should read Austin Klein’s trilogy starting with “Steal Like An Artist.” Fits right in with what you are saying. Audible has the trilogy for one credit.

@augustlongpre64 Год назад

Really helpful video, thanks a lot for this. I would’ve loved to have you as a teacher!

@annkroekerwritingcoach Год назад

Thank you for watching! I’ll keep making videos and add some assignments and maybe it’ll feel like your listening to my teaching (and no grades!).

@renewoods1149 3 года назад

Thank you, so much you are awesome, God bless you, I am working on my second book.

@annkroekerwritingcoach 3 года назад

Rene, I hope this helps you as you work toward the structure for your second book-and congratulations!

@serouniankeir8379 7 месяцев назад

Excellent presentation. I can tell you are a great coach.

@annkroekerwritingcoach 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@thebantisingh9232 2 года назад

Thank you mam for sharing this amazing ideas thank you so much

@lukedoc2697 3 месяца назад

I like what you say here... I think for me, I am more an insirational writer. He allows it to germinate in my head via 'life-experiences' and boom, I write and much of it is deep. Just saying...

@nancyliu2001 3 месяца назад

10:58 memoir structure narrative 12:45

@livingstonesweetword 4 месяца назад

Problem-cause-solution ❤

@annkroekerwritingcoach 4 месяца назад

Sometimes we overthink structure only to discover it's as easy as one-two-three, problem-cause-solution! Hope your writing flourishes!

@livingstonesweetword 4 месяца назад

@@annkroekerwritingcoach that's a breakthrough advice, you've given me there.. Keep it up..

@stacyhackney6100 Год назад

Thank you

@RomanPierceAi Год назад

Great content

@antoniodossantos5960 Год назад

Very nice video 🌎 Thanks. Greetings from Colombia. The Venezuelan immigrant writer 🇻🇪

@thegreya5559 Год назад

thank you so much im trying to write my own book i just need tips

@annkroekerwritingcoach Год назад

It's a lot of work to write a book, but you can do it with structure and commitment...and tips from coaches. 😉

@wavey6196 Год назад

experience is a great teacher for nonfiction books and i think thats why i want to write one so bad

@lightloveandawake3114 5 месяцев назад

Questions: 1. Does Scrivener print my document titles in the compile mode? (I’m referring to the documents inside each chapter, I want the title to print) 2. Would each document print on its separate page? I don’t want that to happen. It would be a waste of paper as I just have short paragraphs in many of them.) 3. And does compile do anything to my manuscript? (I’m worried that when I have to go back and do my second and third draft, it will still be there and I can carry on. I’m pretty sure it would be, but I don’t want to panic if things look differently than before.) Thank you for making your video’s, Ann. (I like how you said something (the gist of it) like as you write it will come together and it will start making sense. However you put it was very helpful to my mind and my self-confidence. Just keep on writing.)

@annkroekerwritingcoach 5 месяцев назад

I'm so glad you find these helpful and are working so hard on your projects! I'm not a Scrivener power user (I've only dabbled with it and tend to use Google Docs these days, instead). That said, I'm pretty sure it compiles to one document and that it's a feature users like. You can compile and send to printer or compiles as PDF to see it first, then print when you're satisfied the document looks the way you think it should. Here's the Scrivener website explaining: www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/printing-with-scrivener#:~:text=I%20won't%20go%20into,the%20draft%20to%20your%20printer.

@lightloveandawake3114 5 месяцев назад

@@annkroekerwritingcoach thank you, Ann🙂

@barbararichnow7780 Год назад

I do my mind mapping in a notebook, and I write in cursive. Ideas pour out and later I can go back to that mind map. Cursive seems to let ideas flow.

@Magicguy13 2 года назад

nice

@jaglulasad5838 Год назад

Is there any book or booklet on how to structure non-fiction books? Thanks

@aaravvarma1143 Год назад

I’m currently writing a nonfiction book, where could I leave my sources? Like can I include a a page of sources for each paragraph or how would I go about that process of citing information while writing a book?

@annkroekerwritingcoach Год назад

Let me first say how impressed I am you are tackling this big project. Create a citation for every source and track each occurrence in the text so when the book is complete you have everything you need to pull together your endnotes. Look at nonfiction books published by your dream publisher to see how those authors formatted theirs to ensure you have all the information.

@aaravvarma1143 11 месяцев назад

@@annkroekerwritingcoach Thank you so much for telling me about this information, however one thing that I still was curious about though is that, when I cite it can I just create a page at the end of all the sources that I've used and how would I get it copyrighted? Just finished writing my book today

@annkroekerwritingcoach 11 месяцев назад

@@aaravvarma1143 I’m not a legal expert so you’ll want to research the copyright details yourself to be sure you’ve done what you need to do. When you are creating your endnotes, they correlate with each chapter. As I mentioned, you can look at four or five nonfiction books that have an endnotes page to see how to organize it. Not all nonfiction books include endnotes, so of course you’ll have to find examples of books that do use them.

@purezentity6582 2 года назад

Can you help me completing my book?

@annkroekerwritingcoach 2 года назад

How great you have a project in the works! If you’re interested in coaching, take a look at this page: annkroeker.com/writing-coach/

@balaamsdonkey1524 2 года назад

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@balaamsdonkey1524 2 года назад

THE TOPIC OF ANY NON FICTION BOOK.........EASILY DEFINES IT OWN STRUCTURE FOR PEOPLE THAT UNDER STAND THE SUBJECT TOPIC AND THE END ITEM REQUIREMENT OF THE BOOKS LEVEL OF SUBJECT COVERAGE FOR THE INTENDED USER. LEVEL OF APPLICATION.....KNOWING THE ENTENDED USER AND USE OF BOOK IS NOT A MYSTREY....IF ONE TRIES TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT AN APPLICATION FOR WHICH THEY DONT HAVE A CLUE...............EXPECT A NON SELLOR