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    To Create A TOC For A Memoir, Try These Methods

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    The document provides several methods for creating a table of contents (TOC) for both memoirs and fiction works: For memoirs, it suggests creating a timeline of major life events and organizing them chronologically into chapters, plotting vignettes on a storyboard and organizing them thematically, or making a list of significant life moments and relating them to themes. For fiction, it recommends profiling characters, outlining the story line and dramatic arcs, creating a storyboard and breaking it into chapters, or using a spreadsheet to block out chapters and scenes. The document asks if any other TOC creation methods are used.

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    The document provides several methods for creating a table of contents (TOC) for both memoirs and fiction works: For memoirs, it suggests creating a timeline of major life events and organizing them chronologically into chapters, plotting vignettes on a storyboard and organizing them thematically, or making a list of significant life moments and relating them to themes. For fiction, it recommends profiling characters, outlining the story line and dramatic arcs, creating a storyboard and breaking it into chapters, or using a spreadsheet to block out chapters and scenes. The document asks if any other TOC creation methods are used.

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    The document provides several methods for creating a table of contents (TOC) for both memoirs and fiction works: For memoirs, it suggests creating a timeline of major life events and organizing them chronologically into chapters, plotting vignettes on a storyboard and organizing them thematically, or making a list of significant life moments and relating them to themes. For fiction, it recommends profiling characters, outlining the story line and dramatic arcs, creating a storyboard and breaking it into chapters, or using a spreadsheet to block out chapters and scenes. The document asks if any other TOC creation methods are used.

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    To Create A TOC For A Memoir, Try These Methods

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    The document provides several methods for creating a table of contents (TOC) for both memoirs and fiction works: For memoirs, it suggests creating a timeline of major life events and organizing them chronologically into chapters, plotting vignettes on a storyboard and organizing them thematically, or making a list of significant life moments and relating them to themes. For fiction, it recommends profiling characters, outlining the story line and dramatic arcs, creating a storyboard and breaking it into chapters, or using a spreadsheet to block out chapters and scenes. The document asks if any other TOC creation methods are used.

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    To create a TOC for a memoir, try these methods:

     Create a timeline.  Draw a line with the start date and end date of you’re the
    period about which you plan to write; begin placing dates on the line that indicate
    major events you want to include in your story. Then organize these into chapters.
     Plot vignettes you plan to write on a story board. Once you have organized them
    in chronological order, identified themes, and considered the narrative arc, write
    your TOC.
     Create an outline. List the events you plan to include, and then organize them
    logically with lesser events “under” more important events. (In all these cases, add
    in flashbacks in appropriate places.)
     Organize your memories into topics of interest.
     Make a list of 10-15 significant moments of meaning, turning points, in your life,
    and relate them to your themes; locate them on a timeline. Write each turning point
    in a scene, creating chapters from these core stories.

    To create a TOC for fiction, try these methods:

     Profile your characters. Give them back stories and motivations, so you get to
    know them before you set them within the dramatic or comedic arc of your
    creation. Then outline your story line. Place the scenes you plan to include on that
    story line (like a time line) with your characters. Consider how the themes of your
    novel play out on that story line and where the dramatic arcs occur. Then break this
    down into chapters and create a TOC.
     Create a story board. Break this down into chapters and then a TOC.
     Number the lines of a sheet of notebook paper and put a word by each one that
    best represents what you want to happen in each chapter. That becomes the chapter
    title. Then make notes about specific events that will occur in that chapter a well.
     Use an Excel spreadsheet to block out chapters and the scenes within them. Move
    events around as necessary. (You can also write biographies of characters as part of
    this exercise.) Then create a TOC.

    Do you use another method to create a TOC? If so, leave tell me about it in a comment.

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