Structure, paths, readers

I’ve been doing a lot of writing! Or, to be accurate, repurposing of older work. Things written for one purpose / audience, things which were put aside but are now useful. But they need to be reworked for the new audience and purpose.

This has meant changing the tone some times. At others it’s the assumptions; things need a bit more spelling out for the book, but then again not too much. For example, there’s a very detailed history of English legal education. That needs to be covered, but there also needs to be some stuff on other jurisdictions. This means editing down the existing chapter and rejigging it to incorporate the new material.

And then there is the ongoing structure / flow issue. Moving from the general issues to the particular, keeping a consistent thread to help the reader along. That thread is examples+model, without getting too heavily into the model early on and not giving too much detail about the examples either, until the right time.

Topic sentences, discussions, topic recaps. Repeat, link. move on.

In other practical news, waiting for ethics clearance to do some interviews. These will give a bit of life to the discussion of examples, and a bit of richness to what would otherwise be a lit review plus what I reckon 😀