Talk:Swing Dancing/East Coast Swing
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[edit] Todo
[edit] Time to structure East Coast Swing.
Alright, I've been working on this book for a while now (about half of the content on East Coast Swing is my own writing, sadly. C'mon. Need some contributors, people! I don't want people to be doing a step wrong nobody checked an error in my work!), and the book has reached a point where it needs to be broken down into chapters. The book needs some style and direction, too. As we're having a bit of an editing lull on this book, I think now would be a good time to do so.
I don't know exactly how I want this book to be structured, and like with most writing, it's best to go over it a few times. But you have to start somewhere, so I will be structuring it. I realize the first structure isn't going to be perfect, and may not be the optimal layout, so I'm going to try to keep it somewhat flexible. Feel free to make reasonable changes.
[edit] What wouldn't be a reasonable change? (Answer: writing plans in the book)
One thing I think would be a bad idea, though, would be if people made a bunch of "to-create" chapters or sections on the table of contents. Such an exercise is normally useless, and gives the impression that
- This project is way too huge and intimidating for any normal human to work on.
- That there are already plenty of people working on the project actively, and that it's got all the help it needs.
Neither of these are true, and creating an unfilled table of contents, is scary and unnecessary. I figure that, until we have most of the book's content written down (not necessarily copyedited), there's no real point in laying out on the table of contents what we haven't done. Add the chapter after you've started writing it.
Until then, if it's very important for you to mentally organize what you want to get done with this book, please write such plans on this talk page, and not in the book, or within the structure of the book itself. You don't have to actually implement the suggestions yourself. If you don't feel up to editing, don't worry. Your feedback is appreciated anyway. Good to know what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong.
The corrolary is that if you do feel like contributing, then by all means, go ahead. I don't know everything there is to know about swing, and I could sure use some help.
