title: The Ultimate Writers Workbook
author: Serita Deborah Stevens
description: <span>Based on my culminated years of writing and teaching at USC, UCLA, as well as other major schools and conferences, I address basic story questions as character development, plot, point of view, beginnings, research, sex and violence, and others; there are also chapters on various genres - mystery, young adult, romance, historical, and on non-fiction, self-publishing, agents, publicity, rewriting as well as, of course, scripts, novelizations and adaptations. </span><div>I, personally, have worked in all the genres that I talk about in the book.</div><div>The book also includes forms and lists to help you develop your characters, your story structure and research. </div><div>Happy Writing.</div>
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  This book is for my readers. You e-mailed me and asked for Jez’s story shortly
  after the first book in the series was released. This story is for you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  There is a lot that goes into writing a book. Time, sweat, crying, swearing,
  tearing up of pages to restart something that just doesn’t work. I won’t lie,
  this book was especially difficult to write, and I think that was partly
  because I could relate to Jez’s larger than life personality. Though she was
  my most difficult character to write, she is my favorite heroine because of
  her deter