Review: A little gem!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2012
If only I'd had a copy of this beaut little book years ago when I set off with gusto to write a children's adventure story. The words flowed off the end of my pen and everything was going along swimmingly until, with the heroine dangling precariously outside a fourth floor window, I realised, with a jolt, that I was not too sure how she got there in the first place, I had no idea how she was going to get down and I wasn't too sure what was going to happen to her if and when she did. To this day that poor girl remains suspended out that window and her uncertain future is locked away in a drawer with all my other false starts.What I had then lacked was planning and plot. Marg McAlister's book would have been invaluable. Now, having devoured it cover to cover, I have before me my stack of 5X8 cards, a clock, a stop watch, pens, notepaper and an hour to spare. I'm off.I highly recommend The Busy Writer's One Hour Plot.