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✍️ Diary of an Author: How to Outline Your Book

✍️ Diary of an Author: How to Outline Your Book

Secrets to successfully outlining your book with my secret weapon: the macro outline!

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Amy Suto
Aug 23, 2023
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Happy Wednesday! In this edition of Diary of an Author, you’ll learn…

✨ Secrets to writing a great book outline that will set you up for success

🧪 What a macro outline is, and how it will supercharge your writing process

📚 My approach to outlining books for myself and my clients

📕 A Great Book Outline Will Save Your Life

This is not an exaggeration: consider this email a life raft you didn’t know you needed.

Writing a book without an outline is akin to being a time traveler and still choosing to board the Titanic. You absolutely know better, but for some reason you’re still signing up for iceberg sightseeing!

Listen, I’ve written nearly a hundred outlines in my career as a writer. I know how to help you avoid the shark-infested waters of “I’ll fix it in rewrites!” — and this life raft is known as the macro outline.

Let me share why this outline will change your approach to books forever:

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