Make Your Book Readers Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the End of Your Book
Make Your Book Readers Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the End of Your Book
The best non-fiction books have a paved road guiding readers through their book chapters. That paved road includes mile markers, exit signs and other road markers for each chapter. It’s stressful to take a journey without a clear road to travel.
Most people enjoy a journey on a paved clearly marked road. Instead of leaving your readers to follow a muddy path of disorganization through your book, use repeating elements to create a can’t-miss-it road like the yellow brick road in the ‘Wizard of Oz’ movie (1939).
In John Maxwell’s ’21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You’ book, he skillfully uses repeating elements. These repeating elements form a paved road that leads you clearly through each chapter. Each chapter has the same basic form (road). To create chapters that guide your readers
