Section 2 of 13
Story Idea
Your story, in your own words
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Talk through your idea
The heart of it — the thing that made you want to write this book in the first place.
While they're reading it, and when they close the book.
Who falls in love, and what's the situation between them? For example: exes getting a second chance, best friends realizing there's more, rivals stuck working together, strangers thrown together by accident — whatever yours is, in your own words.
The relationship or struggle the whole book turns on — between people, or between a character and a force, a place, a secret, themselves. In your own words.
Build your story overview
What does the main character's life look like when the story opens?
The event that knocks their normal life off course.
What sparks between them?
The thing that makes being together hard.
What does each of them stand to lose — or finally gain?
Your best guess at the ending, for now.
Built from your own words above — edit it freely until it sounds like your book. Your individual answers are always kept, too.