Acknowledgments
Foreword by Elizabeth Gilbert
Introduction
How to Use This Workbook: A Few Suggestions

Obstacle Page, or . . . Reasons Why You just Can't Write-Today

WARM-UPS

Warm-up, Stretch, and Extend
One-liners: A Quick Warm-up Exercise
Stop 'n' Shop
Roget's Résumé

THE EXERCISES

Obstacle Page: What If You Don't Like Being Alone? Or Writing in the Company of Strangers

Step One: Your Journal Pages
Reviews: What Do You Think?
Character, Character, on the Wall
Picture This
Finish the Thought
Conversation Observation

Obstacle Page: Fear of Failure/Fear of Success, or "Fish of the Day"

Emulating Ernest
Your "Idea Book": A Lifetime Commitment
To Outline or Not to Outline?
Where Have You Gone?
Don't Know Much Geography . . . But I Should!
A Small Snack
If Breakfast Be the Meal of Love

Obstacle Page: Dyslexia and Other Physical Obstacles, or The Pen Is Mightier Than the Problem

Your Daily Grind
A Day in the Life
The Time of Their Lives
The Wrong Date and Time
Objects of Desire
Reuse, Rethink, Recycle

Obstacle Page: Writer's Block, or Surviving a Big Chill

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Triple Dare/Triple Scare, or How Low Will You Go?
The Wrong Brother
Plot, Plot, Fizz, Fizz
X Marks the Spot

Obstacle Page: The Rewrite Rut, or "My Name's Russell and I'm a Perfectionist"

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
End Well
Lost and Found
Bad Appetites

Obstacle Page: The Committee, or Bad Guys: 65/Good Guys: 1

"Dear John . . ."
7-Up
One Last Thought

Appendix
Basic Etiquette for Reading and Responding to Your Peers' Work, or Miss Manners Comes to Your Writing Group

Bibliography
About the Author