Write Your Story: Where Book Ideas Really Come From
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
You might think that when you sit down to write a book, you use mostly your brain, your intellect, or your thoughts to concoct the perfect argument, the most interesting story.
I believe there’s more to it than that.
I’ve written 14 books and helped hundreds of authors write, edit and publish their works and I’ve witnessed an invisible and inexplicable x factor responsible not only for bringing the idea to you, but also for growing that idea to fruition.
While I don’t know how to name this “x factor” or to define it, I have experienced it again and again and can’t imagine writing a book without it.
If you have a book you’re meant to write, maybe you don’t need to be “smart enough” or “good enough” to make it happen.
Maybe all you need is to listen closely to what this “x factor” is trying to say.
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 |
| 0:22.7 | uncover what it's all about. |
| 0:26.4 | And write your, write your story. |
| 0:30.1 | Write your story. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi, friend, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm your host. |
| 0:38.5 | And on today's episode, I want to talk about this idea of where book ideas come from, |
| 0:44.5 | in part because I find this so fascinating. And in part because I think I have a different viewpoint, |
| 0:50.2 | I guess, on this than what some other, for sure, than what some other writing or book coaches |
| 0:54.3 | do, but maybe something different than what you have thought about or considered before. |
| 0:59.9 | And I think this is a big misconception that a lot of people have about writing a book. |
| 1:04.3 | I know this because most of the time when I have someone come to me with a book idea and they |
| 1:09.0 | ask me, you know, like, what is it going to take to turn this idea into an outline? I have this process where I sit down with people and we sit at my kitchen table and we spend a whole day together and we can literally outline your book in a single day. And people are always shocked by this. They're like, wait a second, in one eight hour day, we can outline my entire book. And to most people, I think that's shocking because to them, |
| 1:29.5 | they feel like the book idea is coming from your brain. I think that's probably like the common |
| 1:34.4 | sense idea about where a book idea comes from as it comes from your brain. So if the book |
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