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Tables of Contents for A Writer's Workbook
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Foreword
xv
Introduction
xix
How to Use This Workbook: A Few Suggestions
xxi
Obstacle Pages, or Reasons Why You Just Can't Write-Today
xxv
WARM-UPS
1
12
Warm-up, Stretch, and Extend
3
2
One-liners: A Quick Warm-up Exercise
5
3
Stop 'n' Shop
8
3
Roget's Resume
11
2
THE EXERCISES
13
122
Obstacle Page: What If You Don't Like Being Alone! or Writing in the Company of Strangers
15
25
Step One: Your Journal Pages
17
4
Reviews: What Do You Think?
21
3
Character, Character, on the Wall
24
4
Picture This
28
5
Finish the Thought
33
4
Conversation Observation
37
3
Obstacle Page: Fear of Failure/Fear of Success, or ``Fish of the Day''
40
26
Emulating Ernest
42
3
Your ``Idea Book'': A Lifetime Commitment
45
4
To Outline or Not to Outline?
49
3
Where Have You Gone?
52
4
Don't Know Much Geography But, I Should!
56
3
A Small Snack
59
3
If Breakfast Be the Meal of Love
62
4
Obstacle Page: Dyslexia and Other Physical Obstacles, or The Pen Is Mightier Than the Problem
66
21
Your Daily Grind
68
3
A Day in the Life
71
4
The Time of Their Lives
75
3
The Wrong Date and Time
78
3
Objects of Desire
81
3
Reuse, Rethink, Recycle
84
3
Obstacle Page: Writer's Block, or Surviving a Big Chill
87
20
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
89
4
Triple Dare/Triple Scare, or How Low Will You Go?
93
4
The Wrong Brother
97
4
Plot, Plot, Fizz, Fizz
101
3
X Marks the Spot
104
3
Obstacle Page: The Rewrite Rut, or ``My Name's Russell and I'm a Perfectionist''
107
17
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
109
4
End Well
113
4
Lost and Found
117
3
Bad Appetites
120
4
Obstacle Page: The Committee, or Bad Guys: 65/Good Guys: 1
124
11
``Dear John''
127
4
7-Up
131
2
One Last Thought
133
2
Appendix Basic Etiquette for Reading and Responding to Your Peers' Work, or Miss Manners Comes to Your Writing Group
135
4
Bibliography
139
6
About the Author
145