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Episode 9: Two Ways to Create Structure Whilst Writing in an UNBOUND Way

  • Writer: Nicola Humber
    Nicola Humber
  • Jul 29, 2020
  • 2 min read





In this episode, Nicola talks about the dichotomy of writing in an UNBOUND way, whilst feeling the need to create structure. In this episode:

  • How the word “should” is a warning sign

  • Trusting the process of not needing to have a structure as your book comes through

  • Often a structure drops later in the process of writing when we allow ourselves to sit with the mess of writing

  • How the structure of Nicola’s book, UNBOUND, became clear late in the writing process

  • How to sit with the desire to create structure and be present with the magic of the mess in the unknowing

  • How books don’t need to look the way we are told they “should”

  • Ask the yourself what journey you would like to take your reader on

  • What brings them to your book, and what are they looking to experience from reading your book?

  • Your journey for the reader in your book has room for magic and can take many forms

  • Consider your own journey and your own story over your lifetime

  • Merging your story and the journey of your readers allows for magic to happen

  • Give yourself permission to tell your story in a different way

  • Even with a structure in place, you don’t have to write in a linear way

  • Your book and your UNBOUND Self might have different ideas about how to write

  • A huge part of the UNBOUND book writing process is to allow yourself to be guided 

  • When you allow yourself to sit with times of not knowing, the book has a powerful, transformational experience to it

  • Structure can also be created through a process that you use in your work as a structure for your book

  • “The key thing is always to leave space for magic”

Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.

 
 
 

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