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It might be wise to approach the project as if it were newswriting. There
will be a series of interconnected stories that make up the memoirs, and
each story could easily, at least in the first draft, follow standard
newswriting style. Each would have a lede graf and successive detail
grafs, covering the 5WH template in greater depth than you might in a
regular news story. A major advantage of that approach is that the
skeleton-draft version can be completed quite quickly, producing a good
milestone that can be billed and represents an actual accomplishment, in
case the hiring "author" decides to end the project early, or invents some
other reason why he should not pay. If the project continues to
publication, 30 pages of skeleton-draft points (far more than outline)
will provide a good framework for building the 350-page finished work.
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