Karin Adams writes with the elegance of someone who has thought deeply about her subject and loves it genuinely. The One Week Writing Workshop is structured, as the title suggests, as seven days of workshop sessions — but the architecture is more generous than that implies. Adams accommodates writers at every stage, from those with a nascent idea to those returning to a draft abandoned years ago.
I found myself particularly taken with the Day Four plotting exercise, which asks writers to construct a storyboard using sticky notes — a physical, rearrangeable method for working with structure that feels quite novel. Adams’s voice throughout is warm and encouraging without condescension.
This is a genuinely useful book, and I say that as someone who reads with high standards for craft.
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