Fiction Unboxed

Most writing books tell you how it's done. Fiction Unboxed shows you.

Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant wrote a novel from scratch in thirty days, in public, with every email, every story meeting, every draft captured along the way. They started without knowing their story, their characters, or even their genre. They committed to publishing the final draft before the month was over. And they invited their readers to watch the whole thing happen.

Fiction Unboxed is the documentary of that month. The breakthroughs, the dead ends, the arguments, the late-night revisions, the moments when neither of them knew if it would actually come together. Every molecule of the process, captured as it happened.

Inside, you'll see:

•How two co-authors actually work together when the deadline is real and the stakes are public
•Where ideas come from when you start with a blank page and thirty days
•How characters and plots emerge without an outline, and when to let them
•Draft, revise, and ship a novel in a month without compromising the work
•Story meetings, decisions, and creative arguments that shape a book before anyone sees it

If you've read every craft book on the market and you want to see what writing a novel actually looks like in practice, this is the only book that hands you that view.

Pair with Write. Publish. Repeat. for the business of indie publishing, The Fiction Formula for the systems behind a sustainable fiction career, and The Compounding Author for the mindset that keeps it going.

Includes the free Fiction Unboxed Workbook with 48 pages of exercises, planning tools, and reflection prompts to help you write and publish your own book in 30 days.

Stop reading about how novels get written. Watch one come together. Fiction Unboxed.