But Does this Book Work? Blueprint for a Book Step 9

<em>If you&#8217;re not excited to dive in, something&#8217;s wrong.</em><br/><br/>You&#8217;ve got a why, a point, an audience. You&#8217;ve thought market, found a way to drive your book forward. Found the one or two sentences that describe every chapter or scene and made yourself consider why those chapters or scenes belong and now&#8212;you should feel ready to write.<br/><br/>But are you?<br/><br/>Sometimes we fool ourselves. We think we&#8217;ve got all the pieces, but we&#8217;ve glossed over the fact that two chapters in our TOC are really about the same thing or the reason the villain took the ship hostage is &#8230; because she was feeling grumpy? Today we talk about hunting for those weak spots (when really you just want to run right past them with your eyes averted, and oh yeah we get that).<br/><br/>This is the ninth episode in the 10-part Blueprint for a Book Series. Start with <a target="_blank" href="https://amwriting.substack.com/p/322-find-your-why-blueprint-for-a">Step 1</a>, do the work (we&#8217;ll give you an assignment every week), 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;. Find details on the challenge <a target="_blank" href="https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwritingblueprintchallenge">HERE</a>.<br/><br/><strong>ASSIGMENT</strong><br/><br/><strong>Fiction and Narrative Memoir:</strong><br/><br/>Download the Ten Point Inside Outline Checklist <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jtUP1gJmzDQeqJQz85q6eMNZvqLL_V9E/edit?usp=sharing&#38;ouid=108141849704907170761&#38;rtpof=true&#38;sd=true"><strong>HERE</strong></a>. Go through it to check your Inside Outline to make sure it is meeting all the requirements. If you find things that don&#8217;t hold together, that&#8217;s your clue about what you need to revise. Keep revising the Inside Outline until it&#8217;s as solid as possible.<br/><br/>If you aren&#8217;t planning to use a book coach to review your who