Write Your Story: How to Know If Your Book Is Worth Writing
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever considered writing a book, you’ve also probably asked yourself this common question: is my idea any good?
Is the story or topic I want to write about interesting to anyone other than me?
There are many ways to answer this question and unfortunately, how you answer might determine whether or not you write your book. Imagine if the author of your favorite book had decided, before ever writing, that their book idea was “no good”.
In today’s episode, I’ll teach you how to answer this question for yourself and talk about the common pitfalls aspiring writers fall into.
Hopefully I inspire you to give your book idea some space to develop into what it was meant to be.
(PS) As I mention in the episode, I’m bringing back my signature course A Book in Six Months as a self-paced workshop and offering a generous discount for loyal listeners starting Friday November 28th. I will post the link to purchase as soon as it's ready.
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Pick up the pieces of your life. |
| 0:07.5 | Put them back together with the words you write. |
| 0:10.4 | All the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find. |
| 0:15.0 | When you write your story, you've got the words inside. |
| 0:19.2 | Don't you think it's time to let them out and write them down, |
| 0:22.8 | uncover what it's all about. |
| 0:26.4 | And write your, write your story. |
| 0:30.1 | Write your story. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm your host. |
| 0:38.2 | And on today's episode, I want to talk about this question that I have been asked more |
| 0:43.1 | times than I can count in my career. |
| 0:45.3 | And one that I've asked myself so many times, and I continue to ask myself every single time |
| 0:50.9 | that I sit down to work on a new writing project. I do believe this question |
| 0:55.5 | and the answers to this question have application outside of writing and I will get there. |
| 1:01.8 | But really the context of the question in the way that I'm answering it today on this episode |
| 1:07.4 | has to do with when you have an idea for a book, an idea for a writing project, |
| 1:12.8 | an idea for an article, and you find yourself sitting in the murky waters of wondering, |
| 1:19.7 | is this idea any good? Meaning, like, does this idea appeal to anyone other than me? Is this |
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