Creativity Rules: A Writer's Workbook [signed] [first edition]

Offers a number of hints for the beginning writer on how to improve style, content, character development, and other aspects of writing for television, film, novels, or other media. Hints are offered in short treatments and offer such advice as trying to write badly as a stretching exercise, and recognizing types of story transformation such as when the main character learns the lesson of the theme. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)