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# Dave's MC book - Dil's thoughts
The main materials of the book will consist of

1.  Dave's human story windows onto mutual Credit - both from him and from hte interviewess. This is the main 'pull' for the reader, as I see it - what will make people wnat to read it, and enjoy reading is, and tell their friends
2.  The material from interviewers, from the MCS project (which also means fom Dave) that is more hard-edged: theory, critique, practice.

imho, it should be possible to read the book in a number of ways:

- only read the type 1 stuff - a really good read, full of intriguing ideas and with an inspiring call to action. There are outines of the hard edged stuff in htis content, but in no great detail - just enough to explain what's going on, but not to really understand it in depth, or implement it yourself.
- read the type 1 stuff,and then come back and read the type 2 stuff later, when you have read the call to action
- Read both as you go through
- Ignore the type 1 stuff and use it like a textbook / manual

in order to support all these modes, I think the book needs some structure that will work for all of them. Without this, everything will be mixed up together, and the book will be harder to read, the persobnal bits will be less fun, and the technical bits will be confused.

But - and it's a big but - the types of content need to speak to each other - the tewchnical stuff made meaningful by a context, and the stories made believable by the technical stuff.

So, I might suggest that the types of content are graphically distinguishable. Let's say this is a 'stroy bit - we're hearing about hhow  something happened, and what someone said about their credit limt

`this could be bits of technical explanation, occurring in the flow - needed for clear understanding, but too dry for the story - in htis case s ahort defintion of 'credit limit', perhaps`

Then there's the rest of the story .. ...
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And then, perhaps at the end of the section/chapter, there's a whole section about the workings of credit limits and what they mean - perhaps a couple of pages, even, in yet another style.



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There could be other 'structural' elements, too. Perhaps most of the interview stuff will be folded in to the text, as you suggest, Dave, but maybe there could be a page or two for each interviewee, where you present them as an individual/project, with backstory, etc

Maybe, too, there might be an appendix with a 'how to build a Mutual Credit' guide?

Also, we should definitely offer to build a companion website.


