1Dedication
47Step 1: Set Up Your Board
2Author’s Notes
48Step 2: Goals/Problems
3How to Use this Book
49Step 3: Anchor Your Plot at Both Ends
4I. Icebreakers
50Step 4: MIDDLE 1–Searching, Trying, and Obstacles
5Hi! My name is ________, Writer.
51Step 5: MIDDLE 2–Game Changers and Best Efforts
6Process Over Product
52Step 6: Curtains Open
7You Have a Gift (But It’s Not What You Think)
53Step 7: Curtains Close
8Reconnect With Your Writer’s Soul
54Step 8: Does Your Character ‘Level Up’?
9Claim Your Writing Space
555. DAY FIVE: DRAFTING
10II. The Workshop
56How to Begin?
111. DAY ONE: IDEAS
57Beginnings Can Be Choosy
12The Art of Reading Like a Writer
58Start on Page 1, Page 10 or Page 95
13Write With Your Eyes
59* The 500/500 Method *
14Write With Your Ears
60More Show, Less Tell
15Big Box of Ideas
61Animal Action Words
16* The Inside/Outside World *
62Take it to the Mirror
17The Writer’s Walk
63Drop and Give Me 20 (Synonyms)
18Step Away and Get Active
64Practice Point of View
19Write the Back of the Book
65Get Tense
20Draft an Email to a Friend or Your Editor
666. DAY SIX: REST
21Dwell Amongst the Books
677. DAY SEVEN: REVISION
222. DAY TWO: CHARACTER
68Sit On Your Hands
23Listing Potential Story Characters
69Find the Keepers
24Character From a Photo
70* BIG to small *
25Listing Character Traits
71Take a Story Inventory
26* The Character Web *
72‘Reverse’ Webs
27What Would ‘You’ Do?
73Get Loud
28Character Biography and Autobiography
74Write Your Own “Reader’s Report”
29The Journal Entry
75Write the Back of Your Book
30Character Portrait and Action Shot
76How to Get Feedback - Part 1
31Assemble a Character Scrapbook Page
77How to Act On Feedback - Part 2
32Allies, Rivals and Other Characters
78III. From Writing Workshop to Writing Your Novel
333. DAY THREE: SETTING
79Expanding on Ideas
34Get Sense-Sational
80Expanding on Character
35The Picture Worth a Thousand Words
81Expanding on Setting
36One Space, Two Ways
82Expanding on Plot and Planning
37Scape, Scope and Scale of a Setting
83Expanding on Drafting
38* The 5 Senses Web *
84Expanding on Rest
39Activate Your Story’s World
85Expanding on Revision
40Make a Map
86Some Last Thoughts: Don’t Be Afraid to Zig Zag
41Write a Brief History of Your World
87A Brief Workshop Reflection
42Build Your Story’s World
88The Best Remedies For __________
43Visit Your Character’s Bedroom
89Acknowledgments
44Enlarge Your Story’s World
90About the Author
454. DAY FOUR: PLOT AND PLANNING
91Also by Karin Adams
46Storyboard Prep