It's an interesting way of seek to have the output that you feel confident about.
The end goal and the most difficult is to know what kind of audience I will be talking to, and this for me is the most important step, why? This will lead how you plan to build your narrative and story.
Books are ways of telling stories, it doesn't matter to who, a very skilled person will read a very technical book and feel that understand and is navigate through it, not so that not so technical person.
Saying so this is how I have shape my writtings, who is my audience.
1. Identify the best way to communicate to this audience, it's like the 80/20 approach, so, for this 80% of my writting will be focus on this audience.
2. The goal, this has to be written, at the end how I would see myself about that subject. This is not trivial, I have wrote many post that were intended to become reference writting, but, even though I have create a story about it which can be read, have a "end".
3. Having these 2 well know I break down the topics, and here is where most of the things change, with the 2 visions about know, I write my topic, I revalidate the structure if is still following my goal, usually after 2 or 3 interaction I have a writting style, a good story-telling, and this will be used to write all the other topics.
The number 3 is really important as I will shape, how I will use images, reference, samples and more.
I have found this structure really good, it does help organise and follow the same pattern for the entire book focusing on content.
It's an interesting way of seek to have the output that you feel confident about.
The end goal and the most difficult is to know what kind of audience I will be talking to, and this for me is the most important step, why? This will lead how you plan to build your narrative and story.
Books are ways of telling stories, it doesn't matter to who, a very skilled person will read a very technical book and feel that understand and is navigate through it, not so that not so technical person.
Saying so this is how I have shape my writtings, who is my audience.
1. Identify the best way to communicate to this audience, it's like the 80/20 approach, so, for this 80% of my writting will be focus on this audience.
2. The goal, this has to be written, at the end how I would see myself about that subject. This is not trivial, I have wrote many post that were intended to become reference writting, but, even though I have create a story about it which can be read, have a "end".
3. Having these 2 well know I break down the topics, and here is where most of the things change, with the 2 visions about know, I write my topic, I revalidate the structure if is still following my goal, usually after 2 or 3 interaction I have a writting style, a good story-telling, and this will be used to write all the other topics.
The number 3 is really important as I will shape, how I will use images, reference, samples and more.
I have found this structure really good, it does help organise and follow the same pattern for the entire book focusing on content.
This is so true.
Understanding your audience, as you're pointing it out, is the key