What's the Structure of Your Narrative? Blueprint for a Book Step 6

The structure of a book is only inevitable in hindsight.

Non-writers don’t usually notice structure unless it leaps out at them—reverse chronology, say, or an epistolary narrative. But structural choices loom huge for non-fiction writers and are no less important for memoir and fiction (although straight chronological is the white-shirt-and-blue-jeans o…