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Blueprint or building blocks
When writing a book, what comes first: Structure or content?
About a year ago, when we set out to write our book, we had a feeling that the process would look like this:
Very quickly we realized that the process is way more involved then we ever could have imagined.
What surprised us the most was how often we went back and forth between the Write and Structure phases but also how often we had to go back to re-write and restructure things.
In our previous article we talked about how we built our own tooling to help optimize our writing process.
In this article we will be talking about how we went about structuring the contents of the book.
Essentially the topics we wanted to write about haven’t changed all that much. But how we wanted to connect it all has changed drastically. We didn’t want our book to feel like you’re reading a collage of blogposts. Nor did we want it to feel like a fiction…
