Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a guided 5 Minute Outline.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been immersed in Anne Frank’s world. It started because Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic, is one of my favorite authors, and I needed a new audiobook to listen to at night. Her most recent, When We Flew Away, happened to be a fictionalized prequel to Anne Frank’s diary.
First things first: If you read fiction, I highly recommend this book. I also know it’s a tough time to be into anything World War 2 related, so I also recommend you take it (and the rest of this episode) slowly. It’s okay to tap out whenever you need to.
And that permission to walk away brings us to Anne Frank’s diary, the Clarity Spectrum book type it represents, and the 5 Minute Outline exercise I have for you today.
- Anne Frank's book type on the Clarity Spectrum
- What is your core reason for writing?
- Who can you imagine would be your reader?
- What context does that imagined reader need to have?
- What truth comes out when it’s just you and that reader?
- What might happen if that truth were published?
- A Tale of Two Annes
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And so will I.
