The Subconscious Novelist: A Professional Novelist's Guide to Subconscious Story Development and Systematic Outlining by A. M. Blanco

What if the greatest obstacle between you and your novel isn't writer's block, but the wall between your conscious and subconscious mind?

Every writer knows the feeling—that sense that there's a story within us yearning to be told, if only we could access it fully. Drawing on years of experience as both a novelist and certified hypnotist, A. M. Blanco has created this groundbreaking guide that reveals a powerful truth: your subconscious mind already knows the story you need to tell. What's missing is the bridge between your deeper creative wisdom and your conscious writing practice.

THE SUBCONSCIOUS NOVELIST presents a revolutionary system that transforms how you develop your novels. This isn't just another book about outlining—it's a complete framework for accessing your creative depths while maintaining professional-level structure. Through a carefully crafted sequence of exercises, you'll learn to:

Access your subconscious storytelling wisdom through proven hypnotic techniques

Learn to use the Tarot to tap into your Subconscious Storytelling mind

Harness the power of the Tarot-36 system—a groundbreaking integration of the 78 tarot cards with Polti's 36 dramatic situations—to unlock infinite story possibilities

Develop multidimensional characters and compelling plots that emerge organically from your creative unconscious

Learn how to use the 3 act story structure, the 8 sequences approach, the 12 universal story beats, and the 30 chapter model to create powerful stories

Create detailed, workable outlines in less than two weeks without sacrificing spontaneity

Transform vague story ideas into coherent, marketable novels with psychological depth

Use archetypal storytelling patterns to create narratives that resonate universally while remaining uniquely yours

Build a sustainable writing practice that honors both structure and inspiration

While geared primarily toward novelists, this book serves equally well for screenwriters seeking to deepen their storytelling craft and access their creative unconscious.

Whether you're a natural plotter looking to deepen your stories, or a pantser seeking a reliable system that won't stifle your creativity, this comprehensive guide offers something unprecedented: a repeatable process for accessing your infinite creative potential while maintaining the structural integrity your narrative demands.

The Tarot-36 system—found nowhere else—creates a direct channel to your storytelling subconscious, revealing character dynamics and plot structures that feel both surprising and inevitable. By mapping the dramatic situations that have powered stories for centuries onto the rich symbolic landscape of tarot, you'll discover narrative possibilities beyond what conscious planning alone could create.

Discover the power of systematic creativity. Turn your story ideas into fully developed novels and screenplays with confidence, consistency, and professional polish. Your subconscious already knows the way—let THE SUBCONSCIOUS NOVELIST show you how to listen.

About the Author 

A. M. BLANCO is a novelist, screenwriter, and author residing in South Florida. A dramatist and prose stylist with a poetically hypnotic and cinematic voice, he combines dramatic storytelling with noir, crime, suspense, and horror to create visceral narratives that fuse cosmic horror with psychological tension.

He is the author of Vulture and The Mortician. His fiction appeals to fans of True Detective, Supernatural, and Millennium, and is ideal for readers who enjoy the work of Thomas Harris, H.P. Lovecraft, John Langan, Tim Waggoner, Haruki Murakami, George Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Lars Kepler, and Stephen King.

As a professional writing coach, hypnotist, astrologer, and metaphysician, Blanco also writes non-fiction on the craft of writing and spirituality. His titles include The Subconscious Novelist, The Subconscious Novelist Workbook, Tarot for Novelists and Screenwriters: A Pocket Guide (The Subconscious Novelist), Tarot 36: Unlocking the Subconscious Storyteller Within, The Kingdom of God Within: Transformation through the Twelve Sacred Houses of Divine Consciousness for Spiritual Manifestation, and A Hypnotic Realization of Oneness.

He can be reached directly through the 9th House Books website.