Coming Soon: The Blueprint for a Book Winter Challenge!

Ready to write with us? The next Blueprint starts January 5, 2025 for paid subscribers

This is Jennie Nash here, announcing the #AmWriting Blueprint Winter Challenge—bigger and better and more interactive than any we’ve done before.

The Blueprint is a method of inquiry I developed to lay a strong foundation for your book — for any book. It’s not about the craft of writing or building an author platform or any of the steps that come later in the writing life. It’s about understanding what you are doing and why you are doing it so that you can have clarity and confidence. Many writers (including KJ) tell me they Blueprint every book they do, sometimes many times. In a special section of the podcast starting January 5, for 10 weeks, we’ll guide you through the Blueprint process with the help of 5 experienced coaches who will be available to answer questions, lead write-alongs and host Zoom discussions of the process.

I believe that putting your butt in the chair and your head in the game for this particular stage of the process is one of the most powerful things you can do for the success of your book.

The Blueprint method will be effective for you if:

• You have a new idea for a novel, a memoir, or a nonfiction book you want to pin to the page.

• You are stuck somewhere in the middle of a novel, a memoir, or a nonfiction book and can’t figure out how to get unstuck.

• You are planning to revise a novel, a memoir, or a nonfiction book and feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the task.

It is not for you if you are cruising along in the writing phase. If you are doing that, keep writing! I mean, you are welcome to join the Blueprint Summer Challenge for a new idea or just because you want to meet other #amwriting writers and get insights from some book coaches, but make sure you put your big “get it done” energy toward your current project.

We’re going to be sharing more details about the Blueprint Winter Challenge in the coming days, but here’s a little on what it looks like: we have 10 podcast episodes on the Blueprint steps, five Author Accelerator certified book coaches who will be answering your questions in live sessions and in our chat for 10 weeks (+ your hosts will be joining in on that, too), write-along sessions, a workbook to guide you, free digital downloads of my Blueprint book, and the chance to win a full Blueprint review from Jennie or KJ at the end.

#amwriting paid subscribers will have the chance to sign up for all this later this month—and to help you out, we’re offering a December sale on membership. The offer will end 12/31/24—so give 2025 you a gift and sign up now!

If you’re already a paid subscriber and you know you’re in, you can set yourself up now and rest easy knowing that the January Blueprint will roll right into your inbox and podplayer.

To join Blueprint for a Book, you must opt-in and set up your podcast feed. Don’t worry, it’s simple! Click here to go to your #AmWriting account, and when you see this screen, do two things:

1. Toggle “Blueprint for a Book” from “off” (grey) to “on” (orange).

2. Click “set up podcast” next to Winter 2025 Blueprint for a Book and follow the easy instructions. (It is MUCH easier to do this step on your phone.)