<aside> 👉🏼 Click Duplicate to import this into your own Notion workspace. You can delete these instructions from there if you wish. Rename each version of this template for your chapters, and duplicate a new one for each chapter. Then you can move the documents around as you create your book.

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<aside> 💡 Whatever type of book you're writing, always keep in mind the theme or main message you want to get across. Why are you writing the book? What do you want your reader to know, understand, or feel at the end of it?

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<aside> ✍🏼 Use this template to plan your thoughts about your chapter. Note down anything you might want to include and keep it all together. This is as relevant for a book of essays as it is for narrative non-fiction, or self-help, or how-to, or fiction.

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Broad Chapter Topic or Subject

e.g. Stories build empathy

Introduction

Here's where you'll write notes for your introduction to this chapter. Think about:

• Chapter main message or story
• Why the chapter is here
• Where the reader is right now
• What you're promising in this chapter
• For example:

Your Reader

Go back to your reader journey: where is your reader right now, at the start of this chapter?

• Who is your reader when they pick up your book?

Main Story or Point

If you want to include one or more stories, from your own life or elsewhere, note the details here:

• For example:

What did you learn?

What's your take on this story? Why does it matter to you?

Why the Story is Important

Why are you including this story in the chapter? How does it fit into the wider narrative of the book and move the book forward?

Any other stories

Here's a good place to link to stories you've already written, or which someone else has written, to save time looking for them.

• For example:

Evidence & References

If you have evidence or references for this chapter, note them down here.

• For example:

Research

Got research to use? Note it down here.

• You can link to other pages by doing this:
• Or if you have research yet to do, you can link to resources here. This is a good way to stop yourself from going down too many research rabbit holes. Like this:

Conclusion or Takeaway

What do you want your reader to take away from this chapter?

• How have they changed since the start of the chapter?
• What are they now thinking or feeling or able to do?
• For example:

Previous Chapter

What was the previous chapter about? Just a quick note.

Next Chapter

What will the next chapter be about? Just a quick note.

<aside> ✅ Keep updating these two yellow boxes so you can see how each chapter or section fits into your book as a whole. Use them to think about how your book might fit together.

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