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A Plotting Blueprint - 10 Steps to a Perfect Plot: How to Prepare a Best Selling Novel
What is so different about this book?
STEP BY STEP IT FOLLOWS HOW A SUCCESSFUL BOOK WAS WRITTEN
A PLOTTING BLUEPRINT – 10 Steps to a Perfect Plot is a How To book with a difference. It is born from the blood, sweat and tears shed by a fledgling author whilst preparing to write his first successful novel
Charlie Bray's book, 'Open House: Aristocrats, Squatters and Ghosts Share a Castle' is a success and he would like to share with you the ten steps he took to create the working plot that led to this successful novel
Charlie Bray is a passionate supporter of self-publishing and founded a website, www.theindietribe.com to support and promote independent authors worldwide
Follow his system and start writing successful novels
STEP 1 Choose the right genre for you
In this step he shows you how he chose a genre of novel that was right for him and how he established who his target audience was. He shows you how he found out which of his competitors' books were successful, and why readers were buying them. He also shows you how to find those readers.
If you follow this step carefully, you can attract the very readers that are making your competitors successful, and establish a strong readership within your chosen genre.
STEP 2 Think of an idea and test it
Charlie shows you how to imagine an idea for a story, and then work out whether it is strong enough to carry you through the complete length of a novel.
STEP 3 Populate your plot
How many characters do you need and what should you expect from them?
Charlie shows you how to successfully populate your plot
STEP 4 Fit your idea into the components of a novel
With a potential story line and the requisite characters firmly ensconced within the author’s head, it is then necessary for these to sit comfortably within the parameters acknowledged as the conventional parts of a novel. Charlie shows you how he did it and how you can do it to ensure that your book succeeds
STEP 5 Choose your plot type and style
There are several acknowledged types of plot that are followed by most authors. Charlie will show you the one that’s right for you.
STEP 6 Shape your plot
Charlie helps you fashion your plot into an effective beginning, middle and end
STEP 7 Plot accessories
Just as you can add accessories to your attire, your car or your house, there are recognized plot accessories as well. These will dramatically enhance your plot and Charlie shows you which accessories he applied to his book’s story line
STEP 8 Deconstructing other novels
Learn how to deconstruct your competitors’ novels and find out what made them best sellers. Then follow the same path
STEP 9 Compiling your road map
By now you’ll be at the stage where we’re ready to lay the foundations of a map for your story, in the form of a synopsis. This is a detailed route planner that will help you get from the beginning to the end of your story with no plot holes, no lack of continuity and no loose ends. It will be a priceless resource for you
STEP 10 Start to write your book
You’re now in a position to start writing in earnest. Everything is planned, your route map is in front of you.
STEP BY STEP IT FOLLOWS HOW A SUCCESSFUL BOOK WAS WRITTEN
A PLOTTING BLUEPRINT – 10 Steps to a Perfect Plot is a How To book with a difference. It is born from the blood, sweat and tears shed by a fledgling author whilst preparing to write his first successful novel
Charlie Bray's book, 'Open House: Aristocrats, Squatters and Ghosts Share a Castle' is a success and he would like to share with you the ten steps he took to create the working plot that led to this successful novel
Charlie Bray is a passionate supporter of self-publishing and founded a website, www.theindietribe.com to support and promote independent authors worldwide
Follow his system and start writing successful novels
STEP 1 Choose the right genre for you
In this step he shows you how he chose a genre of novel that was right for him and how he established who his target audience was. He shows you how he found out which of his competitors' books were successful, and why readers were buying them. He also shows you how to find those readers.
If you follow this step carefully, you can attract the very readers that are making your competitors successful, and establish a strong readership within your chosen genre.
STEP 2 Think of an idea and test it
Charlie shows you how to imagine an idea for a story, and then work out whether it is strong enough to carry you through the complete length of a novel.
STEP 3 Populate your plot
How many characters do you need and what should you expect from them?
Charlie shows you how to successfully populate your plot
STEP 4 Fit your idea into the components of a novel
With a potential story line and the requisite characters firmly ensconced within the author’s head, it is then necessary for these to sit comfortably within the parameters acknowledged as the conventional parts of a novel. Charlie shows you how he did it and how you can do it to ensure that your book succeeds
STEP 5 Choose your plot type and style
There are several acknowledged types of plot that are followed by most authors. Charlie will show you the one that’s right for you.
STEP 6 Shape your plot
Charlie helps you fashion your plot into an effective beginning, middle and end
STEP 7 Plot accessories
Just as you can add accessories to your attire, your car or your house, there are recognized plot accessories as well. These will dramatically enhance your plot and Charlie shows you which accessories he applied to his book’s story line
STEP 8 Deconstructing other novels
Learn how to deconstruct your competitors’ novels and find out what made them best sellers. Then follow the same path
STEP 9 Compiling your road map
By now you’ll be at the stage where we’re ready to lay the foundations of a map for your story, in the form of a synopsis. This is a detailed route planner that will help you get from the beginning to the end of your story with no plot holes, no lack of continuity and no loose ends. It will be a priceless resource for you
STEP 10 Start to write your book
You’re now in a position to start writing in earnest. Everything is planned, your route map is in front of you.
104 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 28, 2014
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3 people want to read
About the author
Charlie Bray
7 books28 followersAs a self-published artist who quickly learned the effort required to sell Indie books, Charlie founded and successfully runs Indietribe, a portal that waves the flag for independent authors and their books.
He recognizes that the wonderful self-published book industry to which we all belong has certainly grown apace in the last decade and now boasts over a million self-published authors and who knows how many million Indie books?
Services and products to support this ever growing army of writers are also rapidly expanding and now there truly is something for everyone.
Charlie finds it amazing that nothing exists to pull all these elements together - to make it easy to source anything you need to succeed in your quest - an industry 'bible' if you like.
In a 'light bulb' moment he realised that what we need is a Self-Publishers Yearbook. So he decided to publish one. He is currently taking affordable listing at the link below and the book is due to be published this summer
http://www.theindietribe.com/authors-...
He recognizes that the wonderful self-published book industry to which we all belong has certainly grown apace in the last decade and now boasts over a million self-published authors and who knows how many million Indie books?
Services and products to support this ever growing army of writers are also rapidly expanding and now there truly is something for everyone.
Charlie finds it amazing that nothing exists to pull all these elements together - to make it easy to source anything you need to succeed in your quest - an industry 'bible' if you like.
In a 'light bulb' moment he realised that what we need is a Self-Publishers Yearbook. So he decided to publish one. He is currently taking affordable listing at the link below and the book is due to be published this summer
http://www.theindietribe.com/authors-...
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