Helpful Note: When you are brainstorming your chapters, have a section of your page called the “parking lot.” Put all of the good ideas you have that don’t seem to fit, into the parking lot. It’s a place for you to keep those ideas without having to throw them away. This also helps you free your mind from any random ideas and keeps you focused on the main idea of your book, and gives you a place to put the seeds of your future books for later harvesting. STEP 2: CREATE A TABLE OF CONTENTS Once you have what you think are your chapters, then put it in your Table of Contents, and write the key takeaway for each chapter, which is called a thesis statement. A thesis statement is a short summation of the main point you want to make in the chapter. DO NOT overwrite these. It should be one or two sentences, that’s it. 98 · ThE SCriBE METhOD