Made for Authors
Make Cut, Keep, Move, or Rewrite Decisions
Also useful for: people in Creative, people in Writers
You test contested manuscript material against the book's promise, structural job, payoff, pace, and uniqueness before making a clear, reversible decision.
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Use this when
Use this when a scene, chapter, example, argument, anecdote, or passage feels valuable but may be slowing, repeating, confusing, or weakening your book. It also helps when feedback conflicts or a deadline forces you to make firm revision choices.
You'll need
- Book promise
- Disputed material
- Current context
- Structure map
- Feedback and concerns
- Nonnegotiable material
- Revision priority
- Deadline and constraints
You'll get
- One primary action assigned to every disputed item
- Evidence for each decision
- A preserved archive for every cut
- Execution briefs for every move or rewrite
- Repair tasks for every new gap
- Each affected sequence reread
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One primary action assigned to every disputed item
- Evidence for each decision
- A preserved archive for every cut
- Execution briefs for every move or rewrite
- Repair tasks for every new gap
- Each affected sequence reread
Sample
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Sample input
You are revising a practical nonfiction book for first-time founders. Your book promises calm, evidence-based ways to make early business decisions. You are 6,000 words over your limit. A 1,400-word personal origin story opens Chapter 2, a 900-word case study repeats the decision model in Chapter 5, and a 700-word risk section introduces a warning that becomes important in Chapter 9. Your feedback says the origin story is engaging but delays the method, the case study is clear but repetitive, and the risk section feels premature. Your priority is to balance texture and momentum.
Sample assembled prompt
You receive three primary decisions: 1. Origin story: Rewrite. You keep the credibility-building failure and... You repair the transition by naming... 2. Chapter 5 case study: Cut. You remove it because it repeats... You preserve the strongest two-sentence example... You verify that the exercise still... 3. Risk section: Move. You relocate it to the opening... You add a short Chapter 5... You also receive a cut archive...