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    Write the Book Inside you
    Write the Book Inside you
    Write the Book Inside you
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    Write the Book Inside you

    By P A Wilson

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    Do you have a story inside? From idea to publishing the steps are here.

    Writing your first book is exciting. It's also like a puzzle with no edge pieces. If you have a story inside you fighting to get out, you need a path to follow. Right now, you can take advantage of a bonus! You can download all the tools I built to help me write more than 30 books.

    I started with one idea and along the way to multiple series and standalone books, I've learned a lot.

    Now you can take advantage of my experience. I've refined the process from the kernel of an idea all the way to self-publishing on multiple platforms.

    The book starts with ways to manage and generate ideas. After all, the idea is where we start the whole book.

    Then it's writing time. Are you going to plan the book, or just start writing? There's a quiz that will help you decide what will work for you.

    Is your story strong enough? Will the readers root for your characters? That's all about revision. That section covers the different ways to look at your manuscript and then make it the beautiful work of art you imagined.

    After revision, editing, feedback, comes publishing. The decision to self-publish or go the traditional path is more about you than about your book. A lesson on that decision will give you clarity on what will work for you.

     Tired of wondering if you have a bestseller inside you? Buy Write the Book Inside You today and stop wondering.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPerry Wilson Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781927669068
    Write the Book Inside you
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    P A Wilson

    Perry Wilson is a Canadian author based in Vancouver, BC who has big ideas and an itch to tell stories. Having spent some time on university, a career, and life in general, she returned to writing in 2008 and hasn't looked back since (well, maybe a little, but only while parallel parking). She is a member of the Vancouver Independent Writers Group, The Royal City Literary Arts Society and The Federation of BC Writers. Perry has self-published several novels. She writes the Madeline Journeys, a fantasy series about a high-powered lawyer who finds herself trapped in a magical world, the Quinn Larson Quests, which follows the adventures of a wizard named Quinn who must contend with volatile fae in the heart of Vancouver, and the Charity Deacon Investigations, a mystery thriller series about a private eye who tends to fall into serious trouble with her cases, and The Riverton Romances, a series based in a small town in Oregon, one of her favorite states. Her stand-alone novels are Breaking the Bonds, Closing the Circle, and The Dragon at The Edge of The Map. Visit her website http://pawilson.ca/ and sign up for the newsletter subscription to get news on upcoming releases and book recommendations. Check her out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPAWilson She tweets between writing and creating on-line courses. Follow her @perryawilson for odd comments and retweets.

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      Write the Book Inside you - P A Wilson

      Part I

      WHY THIS BOOK?

      How I Approach Teaching

      I’ve always thought that there was no right way to write. You’ll get lots of advice on how to plot and how to just sit down and write. You’ll have people tell you that it doesn’t make for good writing to write fast, or the opposite, that being prolific is the only way to be successful.

      My approach is to help you find your process. When you tie that down, you’ll know the right way to write for you. Then you’ll write that book inside you. And maybe you’ll find more than one.

      This book is built in three major sections. You’ll learn how to manage the ideas that flow – and create a flow of ideas if you don’t have one yet. Then you’ll learn what type of writer you are: Pantser or Plotter.

      We’ll work through how to create the first draft and then go into the revision process.

      The tools for the course have been simplified to accommodate e-readers. You can download all of the full tools from ebooktool package. There are tools formatted for documents and spreadsheet.

      Getting & Managing Ideas

      Ithink it’s pretty common these days to find that ideas fly at us and we get overwhelmed at the possibilities.

      Have you ever been distracted by a fleeting idea that seemed so perfect that you couldn’t let it go? Did you end up dropping what you were doing to follow the new bright shiny object only to realize it was a wil-o-wisp and you were deep down a dark path?

      The creative people who accomplish goals, have found a way to manage these temptations and balance the excitement of a new adventure with the joy of accomplishing a task.

      Let me tell you a story about how I handled a great idea I got for the end of my four-book series, The Quinn Larson Quests.

      I was driving down the Coquihalla highway a couple of months ago – for those of you who don’t know this road, it’s the subject of the show The Road Through Hell: but that’s in winter and I was driving on a beautiful spring day – when I was struck with two thoughts that would solve the problem I had with the last book.

      Unfortunately, driving on the Coq at 130kph is not a great place for your mind to be focusing on remembering a great idea or two. I had to pull over and send myself an email with the ideas so I could let them go and concentrate on driving.

      That kind of illustrates the problem, ideas come when you are unprepared. I’ve been told that the big question authors get is Where do your ideas come from? The answer is Everywhere.

      The real question is How do you know when an idea is worth following? Anyone who just drops what they are doing to follow the new idea is going to find that they struggle to get anything done.

      Let’s explore that in the next section.

      Translating Ideas To Action

      Let’s break it down into the process. We’ll run through some examples in later lessons, but this is the pure process.

      Step one: assuming you have ideas floating in and out of your mind as you work, you need to capture them.

      If you get them on a piece of scrap paper, or an email to yourself, or in a note taking app, your mind will relax. The biggest distraction with ideas is that your mind doesn’t want to lose something that might be of value. Yes, it doesn’t seem to mind losing the memory of where you put your keys, but it’s kind of obsessive about ideas.

      In the movie Night Shift (way dating myself), one of the characters would record random ideas in a device. Now every smartphone or tablet has the ability to record your thoughts. Find a way that works with your idea generating space. If you get ideas as you sleep, keep a notepad and pen on the night table. If it’s in the shower, maybe a small white board so it doesn’t get soaked. If you get ideas when you are driving, that my best idea time, learn to pull over and make a note.

      There’s some commonality here with the examples. Ideas come when you are not trying to generate them. And they come when it’s inconvenient to capture them.

      Ideas also come when I’m working on something else. For example, I got a great idea for a new Urban Fantasy Series as I was putting together the outline of book four in my current one. If this happens to you, my advice is to record the idea as quickly as possible so you can get back to work. You still have to finish that current book!

      Step two: You need to assess the value of the idea.

      Filing away the idea will only keep your mind happy for a while. It thinks that every idea is a bestseller. So, you need to find time in your day, week, or month to look at the ideas file. You are going to be assessing the ideas and you’ll delete the ones that can’t go anywhere. What you’ll be left with is a list of ideas that can be the germ of a book, or a great plot point, or an idea for torturing your hero, or anything that might help you build that bestseller.

      You’ll learn how much time you need as you gain experience with the process, but I suggest that you need to have an hour booked off. Don’t worry; you get to count this as writing time. It’s a lesson all writers come to at some point – writing time isn’t just about word count.

      Step three: The assessment begins.

      Now that you’ve set aside time, your mind can start to build trust that you won’t forget the idea. The assessment is your opportunity to do two things: actually build a library of good ideas and clear out the clutter.

      The assessment starts with asking questions. What if this happened? What would that mean? What would make for strong conflict?

      It does depend on the idea. If your idea is a great situation, ask what would happen next, and

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