Muddy Middle?
...muddy gray everything?
Lift the fog with some
It's easy to get lost in there...
Good thing you're making a map.
The Good Bones Blueprint Special with Monster Novel Structure provides extra support where the classic Blueprint For a Book can feel too open-ended: constructing your Inside Outline. Yes, you’ve learned all about arcs, rising tension, and resolution. It makes so much sense when someone’s explaining it!
Then you try to condense your 80,000+ word novel into just two pages of bullet points. That’s when the wheels start to come off.
A novel is so much freaking space that even when you know what you want to happen, or what needs to happen, it can still feel like swimming in a big gray featureless void. Where do you even begin? What can you be certain of? Forget the Muddy Middle, the whole thing is mud!
Listen, I have been there.
Hi, I'm Richenda.
I help writers who think differently to adapt common writing advice and tools for their unique process and project so they can construct the box-breaking story of their heart. I’m passionate about creative writing guidance that’s actually useful when you’re staring at a blank page.
I was frustrated that guides on story structure were all too vague, or contradicted one another, or used the same term to refer to completely different things. I wrote The Monster Novel Structure Workbook for writers who want to understand why beat sheets work. Every beat has an important function and once you understand what a particular beat needs to do your story starts to fall into alignment.
Let's build a causeway across that mud.
The Good Bones Blueprint Special begins with an initial round of editorial feedback on your Blueprint. I’ll provide inline comments throughout and an edit letter that prioritizes which parts need to be worked on first and steps for how to address them.
While I prepare your first round of feedback you’ll get a DRM-free digital copy of my ebook The Monster Novel Structure Workbook to read while you wait. The ebook comes bundled with additional downloads including:
- PDF Structure Chart
- PDF & DOCX Worksheets for printing and saving
- Workbook Questions in DOCX format
- PDF Example Worksheets for 7 stories
- Scrivener Template
- Infinite 30-day Calendars for every year
To make the lessons stick we’re going to put them into practice during a live workshopping session.
Together we’ll stress test your story’s structure through sandbox experiments exclusive to my book coaching packages. By putting the story through its paces you’ll come to a deeper understanding of the Monster Story Beats. When we’re done you’ll have both a distilled Blueprint and a meatier outline with each beat hand selected for maximum impact–and you’ll understand how to make changes without breaking everything.
The support doesn’t end after the initial Feedback Round and Workshopping Session. This Good Bones offer includes up to 5 additional feedback rounds on your evolving Blueprint and structured outlining.
A plan as flexible as your process: If something changes (good or bad!) we can adapt, rolling unused credit into a new plan.
- A complete Blueprint for Your Book that you’re excited to write.
- An Inside Outline distilling the heart of your story, perfect for sharing with others.
- An outline you can draft from, detailing the key beats and turning points.
- Confidence from stress testing different scenarios and trying out different solutions to arrive at the best one.
This is for you if...
Your Inside Outline feels fuzzy or otherwise just not right.
You’re not sure how you’ll turn two pages into a full novel, it feels like a lot of connective tissue is missing…
Your Inside Outline keeps ballooning with granular detail of every twist and turn and–wasn’t this supposed to be like two pages? 😬
On paper you have a solid Inside Outline that checks all the boxes–but it no longer excites you.
- Psst: It’s probably not conveying the real story you’re trying to tell. Go back to your Why and Point.
Pricing
Good Bones Blueprint Special with Monster Novel Structure
Winter ’25 Special Offer
Offer valid through March 31, 2025
Ready to clear the fog?
Let’s connect! Fill out an Introduction Form and I’ll be in touch to set up a free 40-min Discovery Call.
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Take 25% off your purchase of any of the Monster Novel Structure ebook listings from Gumroad until the end of March 2025. All files are DRM-free and come with the standard extra downloads.
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