Write It Right Workbook #3: Plot, Dialogue

In only 30-45 minutes a week, you can unlock the writer within you! Write It Right Workbook #3: Plot, Dialogue presents two more of the necessary skills writers must master to be the best writers they can be. 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. Unit #5: Plot contains 8 exercises on crafting flawless, intricate plots that sizzle off the page. You’ll discover what constitutes a viable plot, and how to spot an idea that doesn’t have enough depth before you start to write. You’ll discover the importance to plot of a through line, how to analyze ideas for viable plots, and where and how to find plots in the world around you. Unit #6: Dialogue offers 8 lessons/exercises that will show you how to write sparkling dialogue that sounds perfectly natural while still addressing the six necessary ingredients that make dialogue an integral part of the story. You will learn how to write for your audience, make your characters’ voices unique, use idioms to infuse verisimilitude, how to tag properly and how to incorporate subtext into what your characters say. You’ll soon be writing realistic dialogue that serves the purpose of your story and leaves your readers amazed. Even though these are Units #5 and #6, 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 #3: Plot, Dialogue begin to increase your writing skills today.

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 also teaches classes on writing fiction and creative nonfiction, lessons based on her Write It Right series. Some of her students are starting their fourth year in the program. 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. Her fiction works include the suspense novels, Tangled Webs, Piece By Piece and Sins of the Past and the paranormal suspense novel, Proof of Identity, an indieB.R.A.G. Medallion winner, 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. Susan lives on the Central Coast of California with her imaginary cat in a house filled with her (mostly unfinished) handmade quilts and (mostly finished) knitted scarves. Find her 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.