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How to Use a Blueprint for Revision

The Blueprint is the Solution for Time-Strapped Writers

What's your word for 2025? We review 2024 goals and set up 2025 in Episode 428

From #FamilyStory to Fiction

Overcoming Pantsing Pitfalls: How the Blueprint Method Can Save Your Story

Introducing the Winter Blueprint Challenge Coaches

The Backstory Of The Blueprint Method (and the Winter 2025 Blueprint Challenge)

Blueprint Starter Dupe Episode: How a Blueprint Can Keep Your Book on Course

Booklab: First Pages-- a work of nonfiction (Hippodrome) and a novel (Mermaid Diner) are put to the test

It's a Jennie AMA!

Booklab: First Pages--a novel (Travel Meal) and a memoir (Silence) are put to the test.

Ep 424: How a Blueprint Can Keep Your Book on Course

Coming Soon: The Blueprint for a Book Winter Challenge!

Farewell, Novelember....

#Writer Gift Extravaganza

Novelmber--No Write-alongs this week

From Substack Serial to Trad Novel with...

Yay! It's a Jess AMA day!

Novelmber Week 3 Write-Alongs

Novelmber Friday Write-along

#AnxietyInducing. A Candid Discussion on A.I.

Novelmber Week 2.5 Write-Alongs and Doubling Down

#Resilience Over the Long Haul

Monday 11/4 POPUP Write-along 9:30 EST

Novelmber Day Two in the Books

NOVELMBER BEGINS

The Longest, Most Public MFA Ever

Join Me for Novelmber: write some things together!

Ep. 419 What's a "Comp?"

Bonus Episode: Jess on Constructive Criticism and Pulling Out of an On-Stage Death Spiral

It's a Jess AMA! Ask me anything and I will answer!

"I knew you COULD revise it. I wasn't sure you WOULD."

It's a KJ AMA! Plus, 5 Signs You're Ready to Query

When Your Book Becomes a TV Show

It's a Jennie AMA!

The Art of Helping Writers Do Their Best Work

Lyndsay Rush's Poetry is A Bit Much

Booklab: First Pages--Sailing out of a marriage and mysterious pie

Episode 414: Your Questions, Answered

It's a KJ AMA!

How to Start a Novel from Scratch

Blueprint Drawing Winner!!

LAST CALL to Enter the Blueprint Review Drawing

Booklab First Pages: Redacted Kitty-Cat and Welcome to Heaven

Weekly AMA With Sara Gentry

Blueprint Review Drawing Details!!

Blueprint for a Book Step 10: How to Go From Planning a Book to Writing One

You're almost done - Blueprint for a Book: Week 10 is here!

Blueprint Review Drawing Details!!

Raising Your Voice, Claiming Your Story

Weekly AMA With Stuart Wakefield

Blueprint Review Drawing Details!!

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

Are you ready? Blueprint for a Book Week 9 is here!

Congrats, You're Publishing During the Election Cycle - Episode 410

Weekly AMA With Sara Gentry

Blueprint for a Book Step 8: One Outline to Rule Them All (Even if You Hate Outlining)

Blueprint for a Book: Week 8!

Ep 409: Tag Along on a Speaking Trip with Jess!

Weekly AMA With Candace Coakley

Blueprint for a Book Step 7: How to Drive that Narrative Forward

It's here - Blueprint for a Book: Week 7!

#FlashbackFriday: Very Serious About Fun Reads with Emily Henry

Weekly AMA With Stuart Wakefield

Blueprint for a Book Step 6: What's the Structure of Your Narrative?

Get ready, it's Blueprint for a Book: Week 6!

How an Inside-Outline Can Save Your Revision (and maybe your book)

Weekly AMA With Amy L. Bernstein

Blueprint for a Book Step 5: There Must Be Change

Blueprint for a Book: Week 5!

5 Things to Do Right Now for Your Author Newsletter

Weekly AMA With Sara Gentry

Blueprint for a Book Step 4: Your Jacket Copy is Your Promise to the Reader

Blueprint for a Book: It's Week 4!

From Women’s Fiction to Romance in 30 Days

Getting to Know Your Ideal Reader

Blueprint for a Book Step 3: Who Will Read My Book? Know Your Market

Blueprint for a Book: Welcome to Week 3

Flashback: Being Genre Flexible with Catherine Newman

The Summer Blueprint Challenge: What's Your Point?

Blueprint for a Book Step 2: What's Your Point?

Blueprint for a Book: Week 2 is here!

Escaping the Lure of Attention and Approval with Kathleen Smith

The Summer Blueprint Challenge: Finding Your Why

Blueprint for a Book Step 1: Find Your Why

ACTION NEEDED: Blueprint for a Book SUMMER SPRINT

Blueprint for a Book: Week 1!

How the Blueprint Works for Revision

Welcome to the Summer 2024 Blueprint Sprint!

Using Mindfulness to Master the Blueprint

Befriending the Blueprint

Why you don't have to do it like that one writer in the NYT

The Blueprint is the Solution for Time-Strapped Writers

Overcoming Pantsing Pitfalls: How the Blueprint Method Can Save Your Story

Stop! Don't Write that Book (Yet)

Stop! Don't Write that Book (Yet)(BP Version)

Introducing our Summer Blueprint Sprint Book Coach Hosts

The Backstory Of The Blueprint Method

An #AmWriting Success Story!

Writerly Question of the Week: June 17th

Ready to Write With Us This Summer?

How to Conference

Booklab 1: First Pages

❓ Question of the Week - June 10th!

Tiny Worlds: How a nature illustrator and author built a fanbase for her work.

Writer Question of the Week - June 3rd

How Bad Can a Good First Draft Be?

Question of the Week: May 27h

Nothing Sells Books. But Books Still Sell.

Reader Question of the Week - May 20th

Trusting Your Gut on a Complicated Plot

5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Self Publishing

Submit to #AmWriting's new monthly Booklab: First Pages

Celebrating our Writing Milestones

His Years of Writing Eloquently: The Return of A.J. Jacobs

Starting Energy v. Finishing Energy: How the work gets done, start to finish.

🤔 Question of the Week - April 22nd

Daring to Kickstarter with Rachael Herron

❓ Question of the Week - April 15th ❓

Episode: 395 Who Owns an Idea?

Writing a Book Proposal for Fiction (!)

🤔 Question of the Week - April 1st

Flashback Friday: Writing While #Broken

Question of the Week! March 25th

Things Jess Learned This Month, Ep. 394

Question of the Week: March 18

I want to sell books. But I'm also writing what I want to write. Episode 393 with Jo Piazza

❓Writer Question of the Week❓ March 11th

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen: Volunteer at a Writing Conference

Writer Question of the Week - March 4th, 2024

Flashback Friday: How Do You Write a Non-Fiction Book in less than a Year?

Writer Question of the Week! Feb 26th, 2024

Why You Should Take a Plot-walk

Writer question of the week for Feb 19

Coaching call with author, educator & speaker Katie Kinder

Writer question of the week for Feb 13

How to Create a Substack that Delivers (for you and your readers) Episode 389 with Dan Blank

What’s on the Cutting Room Floor?

Ep 387: The Art of Manifesting for Tired and Skeptical Authors

Episode 386: Under the Weather Productivity

Ep 385: What I Think About When I Think About Job Offers

The Comment Section in My Head