CPE Workbook: Character, Plot, & Emotion

"With CPE: Character, Plot, and Emotion and this companion workbook,Diana Stout brilliantly reveals and edifies the uniquely powerful principles of plot and character created by eight writers and consultants who are regarded as masters of storytelling for film and fiction. But the real treasure of this wonderful book is how she simplifies and combines their methods with her own expertise as a hugely accomplished novelist, teacher, and consultant. The result is an essential guide to transforming the emotional impact and commercial success of your own storytelling." - Michael Hauge, author of Writing Screenplays That Sell, Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds, The Hero’s Two Journeys (with Christopher Vogler), and Storytelling Made Easy (for business leaders, speakers, and entrepreneurs)
Would you like an expert to help you discover your process to writing a better book?Do you struggle to finish your book?
Do you get stuck in the sagging middle?
Are you no longer excited about your characters?

Would you like someone who suffered with those same struggles to show you what she uncovered, learned, and applied? To share her journey and secrets she discovered with you?
Would you like to see how die-hard pantsers, who were stuck with their stories, embraced a minimal plotting technique that not only got them unstuck but enthusiastic about their story again?

This workbook, a companion to Dr. Diana Stout's CPE book, shows how character, plot, and emotion working together can create dynamic stories that agents, publishers, and producers want and readers seek.

This workbook provides worksheets for you to use as is, to adapt, to make as your own, or to incorporate those techniques that will best suit your needs for your writing process.

This book isn't about making you a plotter or a pantser. It's about helping you get unstuck, discovering your process, and rediscovering your writing fire again, so you can re-experience the passion and joy of creating story.