Books & Kits

Discover how to create sizzling scenes and a multi-layered plot for your screenplay, novel, memoir, children's or young adult story.

$21

Seven Ways to Build Better Scenes Today!

BOX SET includes:

• Blockbuster Plots - Pure and Simple
• The Seven Essential Elements of Scene - A Writer's Workshop DVD
• Scene Tracker Template CD

$40.00

DVDs

This mystery plot workshop DVD is the first of a two DVD set for mystery writers. This Plot Planner DVD shows mystery writers how to produce superior plots. Using scenes from Laurie R. King's Folly, the Plot Planner tool is demonstrated for writers. The mystery DVD offers concrete tips for creating a compelling mystery, complex characters, dramatic action and thematic details and depth.

$17.00

With an emphasis on Thematic Significance, this DVD shows writers how to produce superior plots, using scenes from John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Both the Scene Tracker and the Plot Planner tools are demonstrated for writers and offer concrete tips for creating compelling character, action and thematic details and depth.

$19.95

NEW AND IMPROVED! Using Tracker by Gary Paulsen, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Grapes of Wrath as examples, this DVD shows writers how to create a visual representation of the scenes in a story in order to analyze the depth of each scene.This DVD focuses primarily on the effective use of the Scene Tracker tool for writers and the three most important scenes in a story, while highlighting the 7 Essential Elements of Scene.

$19.95

This DVD uses Memoir of a Geisha by Arthur Golden to show how to create logical and substantial plots, and is packed with tips on everything from character development and depth of story line to action and theme clarification using the Plot Planner writers tool.

$16.00

Using scenes from Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko, this DVD shows children's book authors how to deepen their scenes and create a muli-layered plot. Both the Scene Tracker and the Plot Planner tools for writers are demonstrated.

$19.95

CD

Use this master scene template based on the Scene Tracker writers tool to track the scenes in your writing project. A sample Scene Tracker using Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden has been filled out for you, sticky notes and all. All 7 essential elements of scene are explained.

$10.00

eBooks

The Romance Writers Plot eBook shows romance writers how to produce superior plots. Using scenes from Christine Dodd's Candle in the Window and Kathryn Dennis' Dark Rider, the Plot Planner and Scene Tracker plot tools are demonstrated for writers. The Romance Writers eBook offers concrete tips for creating a compelling romance, complex characters, dramatic action and thematic details and depth.

$20.00

The Memoir Writers Plot eBook shows memoir writers how to produce superior plots. Using scenes from Shreve Stockton's memoir, Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming, Alexandra Fuller's memoir, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Deborah Santana's memoir, Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart, the Plot Planner and Scene Tracker plot tools are demonstrated for memoir writers. The Memoir Writers Plot eBook offers concrete tips for creating a compelling memoir, complex characters, dramatic action and thematic details and depth.

$15 (Pre-Order Price!) Price will be $20.

The Children's and Young Adult Writers Plot eBook shows writers of children's and young adult fiction how to produce superior plots. Using scenes from Maurice Sendak's children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, Kate DiCamillo's middle grade fiction, Because of Winn-Dixie, J.K. Rowling's middle grade novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and many more, the Plot Planner and Scene Tracker plot tools are demonstrated for children's and young adult fiction writers. The Children's and Young Adult Writers Plot eBook offers concrete tips for creating a compelling children's and/or middle grade and/or young adult story, complex characters, dramatic action and thematic details and depth.

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