Write It Right Workbook #5

In only 30-45 minutes a week, you can unlock the writer within you Workbook #5: Conflict/Tension; Subplot delves deeper into the skills needed to craft compelling tales that won't let readers go. These two units will show you how to add layers to you stories that will capture and intrigue all who read them. Designed for all levels-beginner, intermediate and advanced-all writers all will gain maximum value from these exercises. Each lesson encourages you to break through your comfort zone, and best of all, because the exercises cross all levels, you can return to them over and over as your skills continue to grow and develop. All stories, not just mystery and suspense, need tension to sustain reader interest. Unit #9: Conflict/Tension explains the necessity of tension and conflict in stories and explores how to inject the proper amount of tension into any situation. From finding places where conflict hides to analyzing ideas to discover whether they can sustain enough tension to hold a reader's interest, these 9 tension-filled exercises will have you looking at your writing in a new and exciting way. The strategies contained in the Unit 10, Subplot, will show you how to derive organic subplots from situations, characters and the main plot. You will learn how to use subplots to reflect, refine and deepen the major themes of the main plot. And in this Unit you will also learn the secret to creating an effective and compelling series that satisfies readers as it pulls them through one volume to the next. Even though these are Units #9 and #10, this workbook stands alone. You do not need to begin with Unit #1 and work forward. Each Unit is self-contained and not dependent upon the preceding and following units. Let Write It Right Workbook #5: Conflict/Tension, Subplots begin to increase your writing skills today.