Product Details

• Actors: Martha Alderson
• Directors: Martha Alderson
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Illusion Press
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EWAUL8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,448 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Scene Tracker is a great tool for writers. It helps the writer keep track of what belongs in a scene, and teaches her how to build scenes that are multi-layered. I use Martha's model with my students and to help my own writing. --Linda Joy Myers, author of Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story and Don't Call Me Mother

About the Actor

Martha Alderson, M.A. is the author of BLOCKBUSTER PLOTS Pure & Simple. She teaches plot workshops privately and through UCSC-X, Learning Annex, Writers Store, and at writers conferences.
She offers plot consultations to writers anywhere in the world. Writers receive a personalized Plot Planner for their individual project. Her clients include best-selling authors, writing teachers and fiction editors.
After more than twenty years of working with thousands of special education students, she knows how people learn best. Combining that with what she knows about plot and the structure of story, after writing for almost twenty years, she takes readers and writers alike beyond the words and into the very heart of a story.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blockbuster Plot Workshop...In Your Home!, April 21, 2006

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Becky Levine (Los Gatos, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blockbuster Plots; Plot Workshop for Writers of Children's and Young Adult Fiction (DVD)

Martha Alderson knows plot. And she knows how to teach it. Martha is well-known in California's Bay Area not only for being the plot expert, but also for being one of the best teachers anywhere. She presented her plot workshop to the NorCal branch of the SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) to rave reviews. This DVD is a recording of that workshop.

I got the dvd and was impressed, as usual, by Martha's skill and her supportive, encouraging style. The frosting on the cake is the quality of the video and audio--Martha's voice is clear and easy to follow. Also, she's inserted visual "dividers" reminding you to take a break, go get your owon work, and spend some time applying her practices.

I HIGHLY recommend this DVD and any of Martha's products and services. She has a great book (Blockbuster Plots), and you can see lots of other stuff about her at [...]

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you, Martha!!, May 27, 2008

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Enoch Trey "Crosseyedvet" (Candler, North Carolina United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blockbuster Plots; Plot Workshop for Writers of Children's and Young Adult Fiction (DVD)

Absolutely a wonderful, very helpful, product. Thank you, Martha, for developing a system that brings order out of chaos!!