Course curriculum

  • 1

    Book Outline

    • Introduction

    • The Dot-to-Dot Principle

    • Before creating an outline...

    • Basic outline structure

    • Outline checklist
  • 2

    Create an outline

    • Rudyard Kipling's 6 words

    • Socratic method

    • Borrowing another book's outline

    • Creating an outline using presentation software

    • Outsourcing creation of outlines
  • 3

    Additional tips

    • Put meat on the bones

    • Research and 'infobesity'

    • Creating a series of books
  • 4

    Bonus lessons

    • Don't get carried away

    • The sunk cost fallacy

    • James Patterson's secret

    • Creating an outline /after/ writing?