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    The Busy Author’s Guide Box Set 3: Books 1-10
    The Busy Author’s Guide Box Set 3: Books 1-10
    The Busy Author’s Guide Box Set 3: Books 1-10
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    The Busy Author’s Guide Box Set 3: Books 1-10

    By Kylie Day

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    Have you ever felt overwhelmed by how much information and how many full-length books there are about writing? Have you ever bought several books on writing, thinking they will make you write better and/or faster, but instead you read and read and push away the time you should spend writing?

    The Busy Author’s Guide series is a series of short ebooks meant for all kinds of writers who don't have time to wade through yet another full-length book when they should be writing.

    This series will provide you with bite-sized help, inspiration, tips, and creative exercises because small steps are easier to tackle than giant leaps.

    You will find the following titles in this box set:

    How to Outline Your Book with Pre-Outline Questions
    How to Outline Your Story with "What if..." Questions
    How to Get to Know Your Characters with Character Interviews
    How to Get to Know Your Story's World with Worldbuilding Questions
    How to Get to Know the Backstory of Your Characters
    The Epic Guide to Character Creation: Protagonists
    The Epic Guide to Character Creation: Antagonists
    The Epic Guide to Character Creation: Sidekicks
    The Epic Guide to Character Creation: Mentors
    How to Write Compelling Fight Scenes and Epic Battles

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKylie Day
    Release dateFeb 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370558766
    The Busy Author’s Guide Box Set 3: Books 1-10
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    Kylie Day

    Kylie Day is a lover of books and stories, an avid reader, and a passionate writer. Last time she counted the books in her bookshelves, she had over five hundred of them (the digital library was too extensive to count). While physical books feel magical in her hands — and smell even more magical — she prefers to buy ebooks because she doesn’t have any room for more bookshelves. If she had the money she would buy a library, just to fill it with amazing books.Her love for books is why she, as of the spring of 2015, has a BA in literature. She could never see her life progressing in any other way since that first time she picked up a book and read it with fervor as well as stuck her nose in it just to smell the magic on the pages.Now Kylie is chasing her childhood dream of becoming an author. The Busy Author’s Guide-series is a series of short ebooks that is meant to help others with the same dream.

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      The Busy Author’s Guide Box Set 3 - Kylie Day

      How to Outline Your Book with Pre-Outline Questions

      © 2015 Kylie Day

      Cover Design © Kylie Day

      All rights reserved, except where otherwise noted. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including informational storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in a review.

      Some of the links in this e-book may be affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I may receive an affiliate commission. Please understand I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials.

      Find Kylie online at thewritingkylie.com

      I really appreciate your comments, corrections, and suggestions. You can send me a note at thewritingkylie.com/contact. Thank you!

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      Dedication

      To all aspiring authors around the world.

      Why I've Written This Book for You

      I’ve dreamt about becoming an author since I was a child. Creating stories, worlds, and characters are one of the best things I know in life. Reading does not come far behind. I believe you feel the same way, since you have picked up this ebook.

      However, I have often gotten stuck in the process of creating my projects in one way or another. Why? Because of a few reasons. Do you recognize any of the following statements?

      Have you ever bought several books on writing, thinking they will make you write better and/or faster, but instead you read and read and push away the time your should spend writing?

      Have you ever felt overwhelmed of how much information and how many full-length books there are about writing, so many that you don’t know where to start reading (or where/when to start writing, for that matter)?

      Have you ever felt frustrated over how many extensive books about writing there are, but none that could give you the solution to a problem you’ve had at a moment of struggle or writer’s block?

      I have felt it all, and I believe there are more people like me who have this problem. The fact that you have picked up this ebook makes me believe you are one of us. The overwhelmed, frustrated, and struggling writer was the reason I created The Busy Author’s Guide-series in the first place.

      Are you a struggling writer? If you are, then The Busy Author’s Guide-series might be the solution for you.

      I don’t want you to waste your time wading through yet another full-length book when you should be writing — the thing you want and/or need to do most. I want to provide you with bite-sized help, inspiration, tips, and creative exercises because I believe small steps are easier to tackle than giant leaps.

      As an incurable reader with a BA in literature I have studied a lot of books (both fiction and non-fiction). I understand what it takes to create a written work (whether fiction or non-fiction). With that knowledge as a base, I have created easy exercises and questions for you to do and answer to work on your writing-project.

      I also wrote this book (or more likely the whole The Busy Author’s Guide series) because I want to help others who have that same dream of becoming and author as I do. I want you to write the book (or books) you can’t stop thinking about.

      If you are someone who wants quick and useful tips on how to develop your written work so that you can spend more time writing and less time with writer’s block, this book is for you. If any of the descriptions above apply to you, I urge you to read on.

      What You Will Learn in This Book

      The Busy Author’s Guide-series is a series of short ebooks meant for all kinds of writers who want to take their writing seriously. I am aware that not all authors want to outline or plan their work. Yet, you can use these books as sources of inspiration as well as practical tips on how to create your work. If you are stuck in your creative process or starving for inspiration, you can read one of these ebooks quite quickly and then get back to writing with newfound energy and inspiration.

      In this book, How to Outline Your Book with Pre-Outline Questions, you will find several questions you can ask yourself before you begin writing your work (whether it’s fiction or non-fiction). These questions can be used to brainstorm ideas or topics as much as to get to the essence of your work.

      Answering the pre-outline questions will help those of you who write fiction to establish what you want with your story, what you want your story to be, in some bigger strokes what kind of plot you will have, what kind of characters you want to write about, etc. You will also get the opportunity to think about what you don’t want your story to be, because sometimes you can get more out of your work that way.

      For those of you who write non-fiction you will, in some rough strokes, find ideas for your niche, think about several topics you can divide into several books, etc. Here you will also get the opportunity to think about what you don’t want your book to be. Also, if you realize you have topics for more than one book but don’t know which book to write first, there are some instructions (after the questions) on a ranking system I have developed. The PERT ranking system helps you see which book you will benefit from writing first (or want to write first).

      I hope you will find this book useful. Now, you snatched up this ebook to get some help, inspiration, and/or great tips, so here we go!

      Exercises

      First and foremost; if you want to know more about what an outline is, you can read about it on my website in the blogpost called An Introduction To Outlining Your Story.

      Secondly, please remember that the questions that follow have no right or wrong answers. They are meant to help you find an idea for a project or develop your existing idea. Your answers are not set in stone either, so keep evaluating your responses — look for those that offer meaty possibilities or intriguing ideas — until you feel you’ve exhausted the angles for the time being. You can always go back and change or develop your answers whenever you

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