Overview
Using a workbook format with exercises, this activity-based approach to writing fiction gives readers hands-on practice with all the elements and stages of the fiction writing process from preparing to write to succeeding as a writer with tips on how not to be bad and how to develop a functional life-long reading plan and writer's scrapbook. Covers the writing process from preparing to write, creating and developing characters and making them talk, making things happen, checking on details, developing a story environment, choosing and sticking to a point of view, to revising.