{"product_id":"9780972509237","title":"Coloring Books for Writers: Scenes of Life Edition: Story Starters and Brainstorming Helps","description":"With a little imagination, even seemingly everyday settings\/situations can be developed into a fascinating story. The Coloring Books for Writers: Scenes of Life Edition is designed to help writers brainstorm ideas that can be further developed into full-fledged stories, if desired. \u003cp\u003eThis coloring workbook begins with helps for brainstorming, including a proven technique for writing your story's premise. The next section shares scene elements and gives tips on how to use a scene's outcome to keep readers turning those pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the book contains 75 Story Starter mini-worksheets, each with a coordinating coloring page. The Story Starter topics in this book are, for the most part, all normal parts of life. Have fun by using the brainstorming\/premise-writing concepts taught in the opening section to come up with interesting story ideas from these everyday scenes of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can use this book in whatever way helps you brainstorm story ideas, but the following steps are a suggested method:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep One: Brainstorm \"what if?\" ideas while you color each topic's coloring page. Come up with a \"What if?\" question that will be the overall problem your story's hero will face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep Two: Develop your story question into a premise, using the Premise Formula mini-worksheet included with each Story Starter topic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep Three: Use the bonus downloadable scene worksheet to brainstorm a scene that supports your premise and write that scene. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep Four: Use the Story Notes area to jot down any ideas that you may have about a potential story on the topic you're brainstorming about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep Five: If you wish to continue developing this story, make a list of all scenes needed to complete your story, and then repeat step three until you've written all your story scenes. Organize your scene notes in either a binder, a notebook, or by using a writing program, such as Scrivener (which is my preferred method).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote: The first Story Starter has a premise formula example (taken from a 1960s cartoon) for you to refer to, if desired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave fun!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ideas to Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035083817200,"sku":"9780972509237","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780972509237_p0.jpg?v=1763880790","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780972509237","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}