Course Overview

Overview

Most drafts that don’t finish were never designed to be finishable. You started something and HOPED it would shape itself into a complete project. It didn’t. We’re going to do the design work before the drafting work. Six weeks of scoping, sizing, just-enough plotting, and building margin into the design. By the end you’ll have ONE specific project designed to a finishable spec — and the design becomes the contract for whatever drafting course (BM-105, BM-026, your own) comes next. Six weeks. Thirty lessons. The deliverable is a Finishable Draft Design Document. The draft itself comes after, with much better odds.

What’s inside

• 6 modules, 30 lessons + scoping templates — design-focused, pre-drafting, prevents the ten-year obsession
• Mindset Maven Test that names YOUR specific over-scoping pattern (you have one)
• 6 guided meditations averaging 10 minutes — paired to design decisions
• Toolkit: the Finishable Draft Design Document + the Scope Cut Protocol Card
• Lifetime access, unlimited retakes — every new project gets a fresh design pass
• Companion blog post per module — public, perfect for the friend with a brilliant idea that’s getting bigger every week

Who this is for

• The course creator with a ‘small’ course idea that’s now twelve modules and three workbooks
• The speechwriter with a ‘short’ keynote that’s grown to forty-five minutes of unspeakable text
• The comedian with an ‘hour’ that has somehow accumulated nine hours of material
• The podcaster with a ‘limited series’ that has expanded to ongoing across four seasons

FAQs

What if my project genuinely needs to be big?
Module 1 covers the genuine-vs.-grown distinction. Some projects ARE genuinely large and benefit from sub-project scoping. Most projects that ‘genuinely need to be big’ are projects that have been growing unconsciously.

Will this make my project worse / smaller / shallower?
No. Scoped projects are usually BETTER because the constraint forces structural clarity. The ten-year-novel is rarely the brilliant version of the novel; it’s the unfinished version.

Is this for non-fiction (courses, speeches, comedy)?
Yes — those are the primary target audiences. The principles work for fiction too, but the course is built with non-fiction project design in mind.

What’s a ‘finishable spec’?
A design document that specifies the project’s size, scope, structure, target audience, and exclusion criteria (what’s NOT in it). The spec is the contract. The contract is the protection.

What’s the difference between this and BM-105?
BM-108 is the DESIGN course (what to draft). BM-105 is the PRODUCTION course (how to draft it across 12 weeks). Many students take BM-108 → BM-105 as a complete pipeline.

Can I retake?
Yes. Unlimited. Every new project benefits from a fresh design pass.

What one student said

★★★★★

“BOUGHT THIS BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN ‘WRITING AN HOUR’ FOR FOUR YEARS, normal voice now. The course made me admit I had not designed an hour I could finish — I had been collecting bits and hoping they would assemble themselves into a story. They were not. They will not. The Finishable Draft Method made me scope a 45-minute hour with five callbacks, three tags, and an honest closer. I am drafting now. Will I finish? Yes. Will it be good? Ask my mother. Five stars regardless.”

— Bibi T., comedian (writing her first hour)