Book structure: Conquering the beast

So happy to have my first piece in The Writer, the oldest U.S. magazine about the craft of writing.  It’s on a topic close to my heart, something that most of my coaching clients struggle with mightily — structure! How do you choose or develop the right structure for a book? It’s very tricky,  and pre-existing formulas only take you so far.

Here’s the piece with a few of my thoughts.

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For those who want to dive deeper:  Are you a writer wrestling the structure beast?  Imagine a 6-week crash course that clears up your questions and guides you to develop your own organic structure, the one that’s perfect — and perfectly individualized — for the story you want to tell.  No cookie-cutters here.  Open to all genres.  Check out my Blueprint Your Book class, a six-week intensive workshop that starts August 31.

Cookie cutters are for cookies. Not books.

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And here’s an interview about Blueprint Your Book that the lovely and accomplished Uma Krishnaswami did with me. Thanks, Uma!

 

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