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    Write it Now. Book 5 - On Chapters: Write Your Novel or Memoir. A Series Guide For Beginners, #5
    Write it Now. Book 5 - On Chapters: Write Your Novel or Memoir. A Series Guide For Beginners, #5
    Write it Now. Book 5 - On Chapters: Write Your Novel or Memoir. A Series Guide For Beginners, #5
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    Write it Now. Book 5 - On Chapters: Write Your Novel or Memoir. A Series Guide For Beginners, #5

    By Robbie McCauley

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    This little book number 5 is about chapters and the importance of their place and their structure in your book.

    If you have outlined as in Book 1 of this series, you will now have Chapter Summaries. They are wonderful; the best tool you will ever have. Chapter Summaries are like a map. They are the map that will take you from the beginning of your journey to the very end.

    The writer is like a travel guide. It is important that you take your readers on a journey without getting them lost along the way. If you know where you are going, your reader will appreciate and enjoy the journey.

    As you write, each chapter creates an important link in the story. Each chapter leads your reader on to the next. Each chapter should end with something that makes the reader want to move on to the next. And then the next chapter begins with interest and so the story moves forward.

    This little book 5 will talk in depth about chapters and chapter skills. I hope it helps the beginning writer to create ongoing interest in their story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobbie McCauley
    Release dateJun 7, 2017
    ISBN9781540133441
    Write it Now. Book 5 - On Chapters: Write Your Novel or Memoir. A Series Guide For Beginners, #5
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    Robbie McCauley

    When Robbie McCauley retired early from a varied working life, which included the duties of Secretary to Members of Parliament, Researcher, Primary School Teacher, and Bank Manager, she began to take writing classes and discovered the joy of writing short stories. At the same time Robbie decided to study for the Bachelor of Arts degree she had always wanted.  This was the start of a new world. She now has many degrees including a Masters in Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and a Post Graduate Diploma in Writing. Her qualifications provide an excellent background for story writing. At present Robbie teaches a writing class called "Let's Write a Book" with the University of the Third Age (U3A) and is happy to have finally completed her first series of novels. The Maddison Family Series contains four books. It is a family saga of suspense, crime, and romance. Book 1 - The Eleventh Hour Book 2 - The Greatest Thing Book 3 - Where There’s A Will Book 4 - Born Lucky Robbie lives in Australia, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. She is divorced, has one lovely daughter, and three exciting grand children.

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      Write it Now. Book 5 - On Chapters - Robbie McCauley

      CONTENTS

      About This Book

      Chapter 1  - About chapters

      Chapter 2 - How do you decide on your chapters?

      Chapter 3 - Your e-book or ‘how-to’ book chapters

      Chapter 4 - Chapter outlines

      Chapter 5 - Chapter scenes

      Chapter 6 - How useful are your chapter outlines?

      Chapter 7 - Other methods

      Summary and Good Luck

      Some resources used in this book

      Other books in the series

      Other books by the author

      The author’s writing website

      About the author

      ABOUT THIS BOOK

      This fifth book in this Series is about chapters and nothing else. But it contains an often-overlooked secret tool for writers.

      Outlining your chapters is your most useful tool for writing your book. Of course writing your outline from which your chapters come if vitally important. But identifying your chapters and then writing a brief outline for each will be well worth your effort. This is the tool that will help you move forward once you start your first draft.

      It is common for new writers to become lost or to lose momentum. Your list of chapter summaries will largely overcome this problem It will be your guide. It is your map to where you are going from one writing session to the next.

      CHAPTER 1 — ABOUT CHAPTERS

      New writers have a lot of questions about chapters — so here are some specific questions and answers.

      What is a chapter?

      A chapter is simply a way of breaking up a book. If you are writing a non-fiction, or more specifically a ‘how-to’ book, your book will be sectioned by breaking it into chapters about the various topics that you want to cover.

      If you are writing a memoir or an autobiography, there are all sorts of ways to section your book. For example, it could be by years when events happened, or

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