The Inside Outline
A Planning Tool for Fiction Writers
Part of Jennie Nash’s Blueprint for a Book method
Are you a "pantser" or a "plotter"? Do you love outlining, or does it leave you running for the hills?
Some writers love to outline their entire book, because they believe they have to map out every twist and turn in order to write a coherent whole. Other writers hate outlining, because they believe it robs them of their creativity and they would rather write their way to an understanding of their story.
Jennie Nash has designed an outlining method that writers from both camps can love. It’s called the Inside Outline.
It’s a simple and easy-to-use tool with a very clear goal: In a short space, tie the external, plot-based events of your story to the internal, emotion-based truths that inform it.
It’s one step in her 14-step Blueprint for a Book method, which walks you step-by-step through the basic details needed to lay the foundation for a book that will have a strong framework so you can write forward with confidence.
“This process makes me want to write, and it makes what I’m writing better. I read it before every draft. It’s that good.”
THE CREATOR
Hi, I’m Jennie
I’m the creator of the Inside Outline and the Blueprint method, and the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator.
I am in the business of figuring out how to help writers do their best work and for more than a decade, I have been obsessing about that question.
The Blueprint is my answer. It’s a 14-step method to help you write a better book.
What’s a better book? One that:
1. You actually write instead of just talking about it.
And one that:
2. Grabs the reader and causes them to grab their friends and say, “You have to read this book!”
Take the Course
Our Inside Outline course will teach you the Inside Outline and Mini Blueprint, a succinct snapshot of your entire story that allows you to see the whole thing in one glance. You'll learn how to weave the internal and external narratives of your story together so that your readers are hooked from start to finish. These clear, concise roadmaps you'll create will help you get to "the end" faster, with a book that is solid from cover to cover.
The course is suitable for writers of fiction or memoir.
(Writing nonfiction or non-narrative memoir? Check out the Outcome Outline, this course’s nonfiction equivalent.)
