Introduction
Part One: Section A
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A Book-Shaped Idea (3:48)
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Things Books Can and Can't Do
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The Core Ingredients
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Your Response to the Dot Points
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Approaches to Core Ingredients
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First Ingredient—The ‘Origin Myth’
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What Have We Learned?
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My Book, Fathoms
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Answering Why Now?
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Biography
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Exercise: Your Bookshelf
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Exercise: Your Book's Beginnings
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The Origin Myth in Context
Part One: Section B
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Second Core Ingredient—Questions
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Sequential Chapters with Linked Questions
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A ‘Canopy Question’
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Essay Collections
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Simplify and Think of the Reader
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Questions as Narrative ‘Gateways’
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Exericse: A Reader’s Questions
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Exercise: Building Your Driving Questions
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Third Ingredient—A Hypothesis
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Exercise: Where Will Your Journey Lead?
Part One: Section C
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Fourth Ingredient—Originality
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Originality (2:24)
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Exercise: What’s Your Angle?
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Fifth Ingredient—A Narrative Arc
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Scene-Setting and Worldbuilding
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Rising Action
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Friction
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What About the Rising Part of Rising Action?
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Known Events
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What We Can Learn from Fiction
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Non-fiction’s ‘Dark Night of the Soul’
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Crisis and Climax
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In My Own Practice
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Denouement and Closure
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Summarising the Narrative Arc
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Exercise: Narrative Arc
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Inquiry-led Books
Part One: Section D
Part Two
Part Three
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