There Must Be Change: Blueprint for a Book Step 5

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47 min

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I want to believe I can change. Show me how. The “arc of change” is famous in fiction, and it’s much the same in memoir–but there’s a change and shift in non-fiction too. Change is what pulls the reader from the beginning to the end of every narrative book. Without the promise of change, your reader feels like they’re going nowhere, and they won’t come along for your ride. In fiction and memoir, the change comes to the protagonist (and offers the reader the promise that they, too, are capable of change. In non-fiction, change may come to the narrator, to a real-life figure, or be offered to the reader, but it has to be there. It isn’t enough that the advice is sound or that a story is true. We still need to feel that journey from one way of being to another. This is the fifth episode in the 10-part Blueprint for a Book Series. Start with <a target="_blank" href="https://amwriting.substack.com/p/322-find-your-why-blueprint-for-a">Step 1</a>, do the work (we’ll give you an assignment every week), and in 10 weeks, you’ll have a solid foundation for a first draft or revision of your project that will help you push through to “the end”. Find details on the challenge <a target="_blank" href="https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwritingblueprintchallenge">HERE</a>.  YOUR ASSIGNMENT Write out the answers to the following questions: Fiction and narrative memoir: Answer the following questions: Who is your protagonist? (If you’re writing memoir, it’s you.) What do they want at the start of the story? What is their arc of change – their transformation journey? What do they know or believe or understand at the end of the story that they didn’t at the start? How are they different? What stands in the way of the protagonist getting what they want, externally and internally? Are the

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There Must Be Change: Blueprint for a Book Step 5

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