Write It Right Workbook #1: Character, Setting Story: Exercises to Unlock the Writer in Everyone - Paperback

by Susan Tuttle (Author)

In only 30 minutes a week, you can unlock the writer within you! The three most important aspects of writing fiction (and creative nonfiction) are Character, Setting and Story. In this workbook you will find 26 lessons and short timed exercises to help you learn to create compelling characters, craft enticing settings and set them in unforgettable stories. Unit 1: Character contains 9 lessons and timed exercises that help you create characters who are fascinating, flawed and filled with vision and desire, characters that readers will want to know about. Unit 2: Setting presents 7 lessons and exercises that show you how to design vibrant settings and landscapes that will capture and enthrall readers, settings that are fascinating and evocative. Unit 3: Story offers 10 lessons and exercises designed to help you discover stories that will grip readers and not let them go, stories that will live on in the minds of readers. Let Workbook #1: Character, Setting, Story guide you in the first 3 key aspects of the craft of Writing It Right.

Author Biography

Susan Tuttle, an indieB.R.A.G honoree, is a professional freelance editor and writing coach and the author of both fiction and nonfiction books. She teaches classes on writing fiction and creative nonfiction, using her Write It Right series. Susan has garnered numerous awards including first places in novel, short story, creative nonfiction and YA at the Central Coast Writers Conference; first place in the Mind Prints Literary Journal contest; first and second place in the SinC San Joaquin Chapter competition, and first place in the Central Valley Writer's Workshop competition. Ms. Tuttle is past president of SLO NightWriters and the Central Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime (SinC), and is presently the newsletter editor for both organizations. She is also on the faculty of the Central Coast Writers Conference. Her fiction works include the suspense novels, Tangled Webs and Sins of the Past and the paranormal suspense novel, Proof of Identity, all available on Amazon.com in print and digital format. Her short story, "The Somewhen Murder," which introduces the main character in her upcoming paranormal detective series, appears in the SinC anthology, Somewhere In Crime, available on Kindle. You can find Susan on Facebook ( susanwriter), Twitter (stuttlewriter), and visit her website, www.SusanTuttleWrites.com, where every Wednesday you can follow her weekly writing prompts, "Write Over the Hump," and check out what she's currently working on.