A Plotting Blueprint - 10 Steps to a Perfect Plot: How to Prepare a Best Selling Novel (The Authors' Tool Kit)

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. You can now write your book chronologically, scene by scene, chapter by chapter.

Follow these tried and tested steps

Make sure your novel stands the best possible chance of breaking into the best seller lists

Charlie Bray will help you every inch of the way by showing you step by step exactly what he did