Making bread

Make one long paragraph with all the ideas in it; its like a dough for the bread; then you break it into parts and work it out to make more bread, he said. I liked the metaphor, and I have it in front of me as I go to work on chapter 1 again. I broke down the chapter into one long paragraph and now I am going through it and expanding, with as few words as possible, on the major themes. Its a really helpful process.

I think I'll do it for all the chapters.