You will need to setup some thoughts and links to files to create a file for each of the following document parts. At this stage do not worry about constructing the content of each file; we simply need a placeholder for each section in the proposed book.
If you are going to register your ebook as a “Book in Print” and obtain an ISBN you need to have at least the following pages. The best way to introduce these into your Brain is to set a new chapter thought as “0. Front Pages” and then have as child thoughts the following thoughts and linked files:
Cover page
This needs to be a display page with at least:
• the title of the book,
• any subtitle,
• series title or
• any other title,
• author’s name,
• editor’s name,
• illustrator’s name, or
• photographer’s name
• a Copyright notice “Copyright © 2002, Name of Copyright Holder.”
• Any other logo or identifier.
Copyright page
Your second child thought under “0. Front Pages” thought should be “0.b Copyright”. This thought should have a link to a file that contains the large copyright notice and an ISBN number. Sample text for this should be a text chunk you have databased on your system and should be used for any and all books you write. Look at the front of this book for an example of what you need there.
Contents page
At this stage simply composed a placeholder page for you table of contents. You will be able to compose an automated table of contents when you have composed the total ebook in MS Word. For now simply create a child thought under “0. Front Pages” which will be a child thought “0.c Contents” and then create a MS Word file of the same name in Brain and save that.
Foreword
Your Foreword will be written soon, not yet. You are not ready to write this totally original text –do not use text chunks for the Foreword, ever. Simply create a child thought under “0. Front Pages” which will be “0.d Foreword” and then link this with a MS Word file of the same name. You are now ready for the next step.
You are now ready to write the concordance file for your index. How this works is that you need to prepare a list of phrases for which MS Word will search for in the document and which then will be referenced in the index alphabetically. See MS Word for the actual mechanics of how this is achieved.
However, here you already have a fantastic resource to write your index but you do not realize it yet. The original brainstorming section of your Brain already has the key phrases. You need to revisit these and re-write each of these thoughts to be suitable for use in your index and glossary.
First you need to create a thought under the “MS Word” thought along with all the other chapters. This is a new chapter “8. Index”. You will then link to an MS Word document with the title “8. Index” and be prepared to write the contents of your index.
In the MS Word “Index” document you will now construct a table of two columns and about fifteen to twenty rows. On the left-and column you will write the entry exactly as found in the document and on the right-hand side you will write it as you want it to be seen in the index. There is no need for ordering anything alphabetically; MS Word will accomplish that for you automatically.
product benefits emotional benefits functional benefits product benefits Benefits: product Benefits: emotional Benefits: functional Product benefits emotional benefits functional benefits emotional end
brand selection brand loyalty
brand image
brand equity
brand imagery
Emotional benefits
Functional benefits
Benefits: emotional end Brand: selection
Brand: loyalty
Brand: image
Brand: equity
Brand: image
Now work through every thought in your “Topic” plex and insert the thought in some way into your index concordance. For example, you may have had the thought “Youth Unemployment” and then further thoughts, linked in jump linkage to that thought, “Training”, “Economic Development”, “School leavers” and “Weather”. So you will in your index the headings:
Youth unemployment causes School Leavers
Weather
Economic Development Training
school leavers
weather
economic development training
Youth Unemployment causes: school leavers Youth Unemployment causes: weather
Youth Unemployment causes: economic development Youth Unemployment causes: training
To construct this, you should use copy, cut and paste as well as other insertion commands to make your load easier. You should not write/type any entry in the index through the keyboard. You should copy it all from text previously written so that mistakes are not entered into the system. Or if a mistake has been used, it becomes a consistent mistake that can be found easily and rectified.
Make sure you have your concordance files saved and linked to the “8. Index” thought.The purpose of a Glossary is to provide your reader with:
• The word or phrase as it is used in this field of endeavor, discipline or area of study
• Background to what area of interest, or discipline it is used in, and the basic overall meaning of that word in that context;
• A specific meaning of the word as used here in this book;
• Links to other words in this Glossary that should also be read to better understand this term.
If you write your Glossary well, you should be able to give that to a novice and that novice should be able to get the gist of what the book is about entirely in summary form through reading each of the Glossary entries.
Enter in your chapter thoughts a new chapter thought “9. Glossary” and under that you will enter a thought for each Glossary entry you are going to have in your book. You may link to “topic” thoughts and you may also use your index entries as a guide as well. Construct no more than 30 phrases and words that can be described and in that description layout the entire argument in summary form of what you book is about.
Glossary entries should be listed under your Glossary though with the Glossary word as it is going to be entered in your book. They will then fall in alphabetic order as they will appear in the Glossary.
Under each Glossary thought you will then need to construct the following child thoughts:• G1. ‘word’glossary title
• G2. Usage –general idea
• G3. ‘word’meaning
• G4. Links –general idea
G2 and G4 will be reusable for at least three or four and maybe even more of the Glossary entries. So these need to be written generally. You may also have them in text chunks elsewhere and not need to write them –for example in another Glossary. You maybe able to link to the files where that other Glossary entry is in its entirety, and therefore you may not have to write the entry.
You will then need to create a file for each Glossary entry child thought so that you can construct a Glossary.If you have quoted any references, you should create hyperlinks in a reference chapter. This will be entered into the Chapter level thought as “10. References” and there will be only one file liked to that. This will be an MS Word file that will list the links to websites and books that you may wish to make available for your readers.
These days if you have quoted a book, you should make a link to Amazon or a bookseller online who has the book listed and for sale. This enables your readers to obtain a copy of the text you used if indeed they wish to do that.