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TIME TRAVEL WORKBOOK

FOR FICTION WRITERS

Time Travel Workbook for Fiction Writers, by Katherine Ploeger, MA, MFA, offers fiction writers a complete approach to developing time travel experiences for fiction stories of all types and media.  Create better stories by making the plots and details plausible and yet unpredictable, having fun in the process.  The workbook includes 12 major guidelines for developing time travel stories, hundreds of questions to focus on individual topics and issues, many possibilities and ideas for developing the combination to open the time doorway, and 19 exercises, many with worksheets for recording ideas and developing the story.

Specs: 129 pages in Times Roman 14 point, 8.5×11 page size, pdf download, $22.95.

Available from this website (on the “For Fiction Writers” page) and at Scribd.com.

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Brief Table of Contents

Part I – Developing the Time Travel Experience

Chapter 1 – Purposes and Issues of Using a Time Travel Experience

Chapter 2 – Characters Involved in the Time Travel Story

Chapter 3 – A Typical Story Structure for a Time Travel Story

Chapter 4 – Creating and Working with the Time Doorway

Chapter 5 – Working with the Destination Time Period

Chapter 6 – Creating and Working with the Combination

Chapter 7 – Return to the Original Time Period

Chapter 8 – Other Issues about Time Travel

Part II – Possibilities for the Combination and its Elements

Chapter 9 – Possibilities for Locations

Chapter 10 – Possibilities for Triggers

Chapter 11 – Possibilities for Events

Conclusion

References

About the Author

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The ten tips are presented in four sections:

I. Learn about Writing

II. Practice, Practice, Practice

III. Observe Real Life and Learn from it

IV. Know Your Writing Ways

The report is available on this website under the Special Reports page.  The pdf download prints 19 pages at 8.5 x 11 inches.  It sells for $9.95.

You can also download the report from www.scribd.com.  If you would like to buy an e-reader version, go to www.smashwords.com for purchase.

Challenge yourself to take action to achieve your dreams.  You can become a better writer.

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To become a better writer, able to have more work published and sell more, you must be competent in the ways of grammar and usage, that is, Standard Written English.  To achieve this competence, you must study through your adult, experienced eyes — through the eyes of a writer.

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• Learn more and better ways to express and communicate ideas to readers,
• Learn to make writing easier, more enjoyable, and faster as proficiency improves,
• Increase confidence in writing skills with more practice and more writing,
• Impress friends and relatives with new found knowledge,
• And improve writing skills to become a better writer.

The exercises often offer a playful slant, so learning can also be fun, but the end results of improved skills is the best result.

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In this workbook, you’ll find:

Chapter 2 About Editing

Part I – Connecting Ideas Well (chapters 3 – 6)

Part II – Be Specific About Expressions (chapters 7 – 9)

Part III – Be Consistent (chapters 10 – 13)

Part IV – Reduce Wordiness and Confusion (chapters 14 – 15)

Part V – Punctuate Properly (chapter 16)

Part VI – Skill Exercises (50 sets of skill exercises to practice each issue)

Answer Key to Exercises

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This workbook is an excellent study guide for writing groups, tackling and discussing one chapter per week, working through the exercises, clearing up mistakes and misunderstandings.

It also makes an excellent gift for those fledgling writers or those who complain (usually through a joke) that they need to improve their grammar skills.

© 2010 Katherine Ploeger, 157 pages, pdf download (8.5 x 11 inches), Price: $24.95.

Go to the WTNB Workbooks page to order this workbook.

So in this space, I’ll be posting announcements about new product releases and other stuff about Quilliful Publications, but I won’t be doing the full article each weak as hoped for and promised.

My blog, where all the free content and blog posts will be, is at http://katieploeger.com.  Check it out. Subscribe to the list, and you’ll get the blog posts, announcements, and other fun stuff I’m creating for writers.

Thank you for your patience as my Internet business evolves and flourishes (one only hopes).

Ta ta for now

Katie Ploeger

The following formats are now available (double click on the link):

* Trade paperback on this website.

* Pdf download on this website.

Bonus for website purchase: If you purchase directly from this website, I’ll throw in for free my latest workbook Common Writing Errors Workbook, more than 160 pages of detailed explanations, examples, and skill exercises on each point covered (50 of them).   This workbook is based on Lesson 11 from Write That Nonfiction Book: The Whole Process.

* E-Reader formats at Smashwords.  Check out my book page on Smashwords.  And check out my profile on Smashwords.

* It’s also available at the Kindle Store, though I can’t guarantee how the book will actually look.  Search under “ploeger, write that” to get to the book page.

I think I’ve got all of the possible formats covered at this point except the iPad, which I’m looking into.

Ta ta for now

Katie Ploeger

Write That Nonfiction Book: The Whole Process is a course-in-a-book, contained in six sections with twelve lessons.  The book works through the process of writing a nonfiction book, offering detailed, step-by-step tasks, tips, and techniques to accomplish that all-important goal.

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Each BookNote describes one task to accomplish at a time, one goal to focus on. Once that task is done, the writer moves on to the next task, the next BookNote. This method allows the writer to reduce a huge, unmanageable mountain into a series of steps and tasks to accomplish.

By the end of the course/book, the writer should be fairly familiar with the entire writing process, along with having learned about and practiced many tips and techniques. The writer can see the process as something doable, and she should have a finished manuscript she can send to a publisher or printer (if self-publishing).

Write That Nonfiction Book: The Whole Process is available in three formats: trade paperback through Amazon.com, a pdf download + a bonus workbook through this website, and as a kindle book.

Go to the Write That Nonfiction Book page on this site for more information about ordering.

So what do you think about the book?  Could you use a copy?  Have something to say about writing nonfiction?  Please leave a comment and I’ll reply.

Ta ta for now

Katie Ploeger