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Planning and content

You want to write a book.

You have a strong idea about what the book should be about, and you have solid people on your team.

Then it's time to make a good plan and think about the actual content of the book.

You can create an outline where you list all the topics that should be included. In addition to the main content, you should also consider other common elements in a book. An example of an outline might look like this:

Cover
Title page
Colophon
Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction to the topics
Topic 1: Text, photo
Topic 2: Text, photo, text box
Topic 3: Text (interview), illustration, map
Etc.
Afterword
Glossary
Index

What goes in and where?

Once you've gone through the outline a few times, you can start gathering material to be included: images, texts, and things to be photographed. Is there anyone you need to speak to who has information? Can you get access to an archive with images?

At this stage, you're starting to get an overview of the entire project.

Is the outline clear enough?

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