Before You Write Another 50,000 Words That Go Nowhere, Make Sure You’re Writing The Right Story
Blueprint for a Book gives you a proven process to uncover what your novel is really about, strengthen the foundation of your story, and know what belongs on the page.
Whether you’re starting your novel, stuck halfway through, or wondering how you’re going to fit is, the Blueprint helps you see your story more clearly and how to know what to do next.
Writing More Pages Won’t Fix a Problem Underneath the Pages
You can keep drafting. You can rearrange scenes. You can deepen your characters, rewrite the opening, or push yourself to finally get to THE END.
But if the foundational decisions underneath your novel aren't clear, you can spend months trying to solve the wrong problems.
That's what the Blueprint is designed to prevent.
The Blueprint for a Book is a 14-step method of inquiry that helps you step back from the pages and see your novel as a whole—what it's really about, what your protagonist wants, what's at stake, what changes, and why this story needs to be told.
It doesn't tell you what your novel should be. It helps you make the decisions that make it yours.
Created by author, book coach, and Author Accelerator founder Jennie Nash, the Blueprint method has been used by thousands of writers and taught to nearly 450 professional book coaches.
“The Blueprint process makes me want to write, and it makes what I’m writing better. I read it before every draft. It’s that good.”
— KJ Dell’Antonia New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters, a Reese’s Book Club pick
Use the Blueprint at Any Stage of Your Novel
➡️ You’re starting a new novel.
You have an idea you can't stop thinking about—but you're not entirely sure how to turn it into a story that works.
Build the foundation before you spend months drafting.
➡️ You’re stuck in the middle.
You're 20,000, 40,000, maybe 60,000 words in—and something isn't working.
Step back, identify what's missing, and figure out what needs to happen next.
➡️ You’ve finished your first draft.
You wrote the book. Now comes the harder question: How do I make it better?
Test the foundation before you start moving scenes and rewriting pages.
The same Blueprint works at every stage because the questions underneath a strong novel don't change.
Get the Complete Blueprint System for $19
This isn't a taste of the Blueprint or a stripped-down introduction.
You get the complete method.
➡️ Jennie Nash's Blueprint for a Book
The complete digital book and 14-step framework at the heart of the Blueprint method.
➡️ 14 video lessons with Jennie + four Author Accelerator Certified Book Coaches
See the questions in action, hear different perspectives, and learn how to apply the Blueprint thinking to your own novel.
➡️ The Blueprint Workbook
Work through each question, capture your thinking, and build the Inside Outline that becomes a touchstone for your book as you draft and revise.
Everything you need to build your Blueprint. $19
This Is Not a Formula for Your Novel
The Blueprint doesn't give you a set of beats to hit or tell you where your plot points belong.
It gives you better questions.
Questions that help you investigate the story you're trying to tell:
Why this book?
Why are you writing it, and what do you want the reader to experience?
Who is this story really about?
What does your protagonist want—and why can't they simply have it?
What's actually at stake?
Why do the choices in this story matter?
What changes?
What happens internally as well as externally because of what your character experiences?
How does it all hold together?
Can you see the cause-and-effect trajectory of the story from beginning to end?
You work through questions like these across the 14 Blueprint steps until you can see the architecture beneath your novel.
Not someone else's formula for a good story. Your logic for this story.
Hi, I’m Jennie Nash
I'm an author, book coach, and the founder of Author Accelerator.
For more than a decade, I've been obsessed with one question:
What actually helps writers do their best work?
I've worked with writers at every stage of the process, trained nearly 450 book coaches, and developed tools that have helped thousands of writers move from an idea to a finished book.
The Blueprint is at the heart of that work.
Because I've seen again and again that writers don't necessarily need someone to tell them what to do.
They need a way to see their book clearly enough to decide what to do.
My definition of a better book is simple:
It's a book you actually write instead of just talking about writing.
And it's a book that gives readers an experience powerful enough that they want to tell someone else:
"You have to read this book."
That's what all these decisions are in service of.
“Before anyone is allowed to ask a writer-friend out for coffee ‘just to pick your brain’ about a book idea, they should be required to read this. It answers SO MANY QUESTIONS. I’m going to keep a stash of copies to hand out.”
—Mary Laura Philpott, author of Bomb Shelter and I Miss You When I Blink
See Your Novel More Clearly.
Make the foundational decisions underneath your story.
Know why you're making them.
And get back to the page knowing what you're trying to build.
Blueprint for a Book
Complete digital book + 14 video lessons + workbook
Writers come back to the Blueprint again and again.
"Jennie Nash turned me into a plotter and changed the way I think about approaching any new project. I'm an Inside Outside outline fan for life!" -Alison Hammer, USA today bestseller author of You and Me and Us, Little Pieces of Me, The Beach Trap, and The Comeback Summer
"If you are about to start writing or revising your novel - hold up! You need this bookbefore putting fingers to keyboard. It's a step-by-step design-your-novel manual that encapsulates the most important aspect of great story-telling: how to reach deep intoyour writerly heart and into the heart of the story you want to bring to life." - Janet Fox, author of The Artifact Hunters, The Mysteries of Mystic Mountain
