Inkslinger 2 is a well written, encouraging, and accessible guide with tips for outlining and planning fiction. Released 1st Feb 2022 by Night River Press, it's 256 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately.
Experienced author and writing workshop coordinators Kimberly Cooper Griffin and Finnian Burnett delineate a general procedure for planning and outlining in the context of written (mostly) fiction and other written forms. In this follow-up workshop, they cover how to figure out: target audience, genre, plot and outline, point of view, and writing character studies.
Salient points are listed succinctly, often in short bullet point lists. Important tips are provided in highlighted text boxes. The whole effect is streamlined and customizable to fit individual author's needs.
The entire book is useful - but for me the knockout value comes from the appendices included in the volume. They vary in range from exercises for building the framework and skeleton for a narrative arc which readers can build on and expand into a finished product, to 250 writing prompts (many of the lessons in the book invite readers to choose a prompt from this appendix), and blank worksheets to fill out which cover the themes in the book: target audience, genre, etc.
Four and a half stars. This would be a good choice for public or school library acquisition, writing workshops, classroom use, and of course for writers who want to improve their craft.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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