322 Find Your Why: Blueprint for a Book Step 1

<em>We sit down to write because we have something to say.</em><br/><br/>It&#8217;s beginning!<br/><br/>This Episode marks the beginning of the 10-part Blueprint for a Book Series. Start here, do the work (we&#8217;ll give you an assignment every week)&#8212;and in 10 weeks, you&#8217;ll have a solid foundation for a first draft or revision of your project that will help you push through to &#8220;the end&#8221;. For the details on the challenge, and to sign up for weekly encouragement, bonuses, and the chance to win a blueprint critique, head to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwritingblueprintchallenge">authoraccelerator.com/amwritingblueprintchallenge</a>. <br/><br/>Start with why. That&#8217;s the title of one of Jennie Nash&#8217;s favorite books and TED talks: Simon Sinek&#8217;s <a target="_blank" href="https://simonsinek.com/books/start-with-why/">Start with Why</a>, and it&#8217;s what a good book coach will always bring you back to if you get ahead of yourself. Why are you writing this? Fiction, memoir, non-fiction: we always have a reason. There is something we want to say, and someone we want to hear it. Knowing what that is gives your writing power. Readers feel it when something raw and real lies underneath your words, whether those words are about an intergalactic dinosaur battle or improving your chess game.<br/><br/><strong>LINKS</strong><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="https://bookriot.com/">Bookriot</a><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781633888173">Leaf Your Troubles Behind: How to Destress and Grow Happiness Through Plants</a>, Karen Hugg<br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780735223721">Know My Name</a>, Chanel Miller<br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781982160784">Bomb Shelter</a>, Mary Laura Philpott<br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80233611">Nanette</a><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781984819789">Ten Steps to