Sexy Christmas - Ampers&d's DMSI 3.2 B VIDEO Journal

[Shannon]

The best way to write a book is to outline the whole thing before you start writing it and then write out the outline. That's how I write all my books. I wrote the book on how to do this literally, sort of as notes for myself, and that book was ~55k words and was written in 3 days. It took 27 more to edit it several times. 30 days to publish from start, using the methods I wrote out in the book. Since it was for private use, I didn't bother getting fancy with the cover, but the point remains.

First I write an outline of what each chapter covers and then I go into a sub-outline for each chapter. I use LyX to format. Write the outline in LyX, adjust it to fit the things in the outline (Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, etc.) and then just go through and write out each piece. Very easy, and very convenient. LyX makes formatting effortless, and allows you to switch things around and adjust them, add to them and subtract from them as needed with no hassle.

EDIT: I think I may have mis-read some of what you posted above, but hopefully what I said will still be useful and inspiring.