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SUMMARY

It includes exercises to:

Build characters from people you know

Use yourself as a character

Write about people around you as they actually are

Research your characters and how to incorporate the results in your writing

Cure the "narrative drag"

Find buzz words and use them to your best advantage

Turn pet-peeves into a salable idea

Use trouble to supercharge your story

In hardcover, the book is 182 pages long.

REFERENCES

The author regularly uses examples from his own books including '' Soup '' and '' A Day No Pigs Would Die ''.

The book was promoted by author Sloan Wilson who wrote '' The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit '' (later made into a film with Gregory Peck ) and '' A Summer Place ''.