Organising Principles

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When you write a book about something, and it could be anything – the body, birds, cheese, the moon, the senses, the home or your favourite writer / musician / actor, then the are various ways to organise that book.

On a simplistic level, you could look at the history of the subject, or the parts and composition of it, the similarities to other things, the subject’s naturalenemies or friends, the processes it goes through on a daily basis or the spread of the populations by region.

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