Hey there, Savannah here. Before we get into today's episode, I wanted to share our next book

pick with you because I'm super excited to dig into this book and see how and why it works.

Our next meeting is coming up on November 16th at 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Eastern, and we're going to be

digging into the fourth wing by Rebecca Yarrows.

Abigail and I are so excited to deconstruct this book and these meetings are always so much fun.

They're interactive so in addition to our presentation on why we think this story works

and why we think it resonates with readers, there are also polls and lots of opportunities to chat with other

writers and ask us questions and you know just participate in a group discussion

about a really awesome book. As always our aim is to analyze a novel and translate our learnings into

actionable tips, tools, and strategies that you can take and implement in your own

writing right away. So if you want to join us or if you want to learn more about how the book club works, go to

Savannah Gilboe.com forward slash book.

One more time, that's Savannah Gilboe.com forward slash book

dash club. Hope to see you there there so this is where you can grab some

index cards post it notes or a notebook or however you like to plan an outline

because I'm going to show you how to break your story down using math and if you're going to break your story down using math. And if you're going to use

index cards or post-it notes, then each index card or post-it note will represent

one scene. So the cool thing about nanom-rimo is we know that the goal of Nanoremo is to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

So that means that you can start to break your story down like this.

Act one of a story generally represents 25% of the total. So that means

Act 1 of your story will be around 12,500 words or about 10 scenes. Act 2

generally represents 50% of your story,

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