Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for context.

This year, I made it a point to bring reading back into my daily routine. A month or so ago, I finally finished a book I’ve had on my shelf for literal years now: The Girl with All the Gifts. And a moment between the protagonist and villain caught my eye.

- Why some content is hard to distill

- The stories we tell ourselves about that problem

- How to create clarity via context

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Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for a 5 Minute Outline.

In five, one-minute long segments, I will give you prompts and tell you where to write them down. You will write for the duration of that minute, allowing any and everything to come to the surface.

No stopping. No editing. No judging.

Before we begin, get a chapter in mind that you’d like to draft, then pause to get a pencil and paper. Write the numbers 1 through 5 on that paper...and we'll begin.

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Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for questions.

When do I know I have a book worth writing?

When can we stop mapping and start writing?

When is it done enough to give it to you for editing?

When do I know it’s ready to share?

- The truth about these questions and who can answer them

- Tapping into your authorial audacity

- What to do when you disagree with your editor or readers

- The easiest way to reframe

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Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for turning points.

You might already be using "younger you" as a target reader. It’s the persona you can get closest to, and you almost undoubtedly learned or experienced the topic of your book before deciding to write it.

“Younger you” is an excellent way to think about your most heavily impacted reader.

But consider getting even more specific.

- The you who existed JUST before your big "aha" moment about this topic

- Turning points vs the whole resolution

- How writing for a purpose changes the way you identify your reader

- Questions you can ask yourself to find that reader

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Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for core messages.

- Naming the resistance the reader is facing

- Noticing when you keep writing to the same type of resistance

- Embracing your core message as an author

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Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for comparison.

We're often told not to compare. Don't compare your page one to their end. Comparison is not good for you. Stop comparing. Comparison is the thief of joy.

The thing is, it’s difficult to just stop something that’s happening on a subconscious level.

- Intentional vs unintentional comparison

- The purpose of comparison- How our brains "protect us" from good things

- What comparison has to offer

- What comparison morphs into and how it can hurt us

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Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we're making space for five minute outlines.

I have used an exercise called the Five Minute Outline for years now, both in my own practice as a ghostwriter and book coach and as I’ve taught others to navigate their own writing process.

- What is a five minute outline

- How to prepare for a meditative outlining exercise

- Guided five minute outline for a complete book

- How to check-in with yourself to see if your outline resonates

- Resources for further support

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Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for change.

When your book falls somewhere between a calling card and a calling, what you're really writing for is change. The change in your reader, the change in your world, and the change in how you see yourself and your work.

- Writing a pitch for the world you want to see.

- Balancing the problem that inspired the book with the vision that drives it.

- Finding your authority as a multi-passionate non-writer

- The most important thing to remember as you write

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Welcome to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re creating space for the power of writing.

Jennie Nash recently said, "Books help us know the past and imagine the future," in response to the question "Do you believe that books can save us?"

To take that a step further, it’s the process of writing a book that I believe will actually save us.

Here's how.

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Welcome to B is for Book Coach! Today, we’re creating space for audience-building.

This era of publishing has created its own chicken and egg dilemma: does a book build an audience or does an audience justify a book?

Neither is technically wrong.

But it's only a dilemma if we treat the book as a standalone product to be sold, rather than a top-of-funnel invitation to a larger journey.

- What publishers are looking for

- What an audience really is

- Readership beyond the book

- What to focus on instead of audience-size

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