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    To develop a table of contents, a writer must organize their story or information into a book structure using chapters. Getting organized is an important first step, especially for nonfiction writers who need to compile research before writing or novelists dealing with many characters and plotlines. Memoir writers typically need to dig up memories and facts and organize them chronologically. While some writers prefer a more free-flowing process with little planning, developing a table of contents provides organization, direction, and focus that can reduce needed revisions later in the drafting process.

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    To develop a table of contents, a writer must organize their story or information into a book structure using chapters. Getting organized is an important first step, especially for nonfiction writers who need to compile research before writing or novelists dealing with many characters and plotlines. Memoir writers typically need to dig up memories and facts and organize them chronologically. While some writers prefer a more free-flowing process with little planning, developing a table of contents provides organization, direction, and focus that can reduce needed revisions later in the drafting process.

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    To develop a table of contents, a writer must organize their story or information into a book structure using chapters. Getting organized is an important first step, especially for nonfiction writers who need to compile research before writing or novelists dealing with many characters and plotlines. Memoir writers typically need to dig up memories and facts and organize them chronologically. While some writers prefer a more free-flowing process with little planning, developing a table of contents provides organization, direction, and focus that can reduce needed revisions later in the drafting process.

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    GET ORGANIZED

    To develop a TOC, however, you must organize your story or information into a book
    structure. These are called chapters. Many ways exist to begin writing a book. Getting
    organized provides a good first step, especially if you plan to write nonfiction and have
    research you’ve already compiled or need to compile before you can write. Organization
    can be key for novelists as well, especially if you have many characters or events to keep
    track of in your story line. Memoirists usually need to dig up memories and facts and then
    organize them into a coherent structure for a story.

    Not every writer begins writing with a TOC as a map, although many do. Others like to
    write “by the seat of their pants,” allowing their books to flow out of their heads with
    little planning.  (Some refer to this as “mappers vs. pantsers.”)  I recommend that both
    fiction and nonfiction writers develop a TOC because it provides organization, direction
    and focus as you write. It also reduces some need to revise and cut in later drafts of your
    manuscript.

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