The creators of WritePro, the world's leading creative writing tutorial program, bring you the next step in improving your writing. FirstAid for Writers is a permanent reference tool to help you solve your fiction and non-fiction writing problems. Get instance access to 60 subject areas. Import and edit your writing with professional guidance as you fix problems and enhance what you've written. Much of the technique has never been available before!

FirstAid for Writers® Contains 5 modules with over 60 different tools to assist you with your writing:
1. Gearing Up gets you started --and restarted if writer's block ever thwarts you--with a technique that works 100% of the time. Shows how to jump-start inspiration instead of waiting for it. How professionals imagine extraordinary scenes. How to use backstory the way screenwriters do. How to use the "secret snapshots" technique to stop writing from the outside and get inside what only you can write.

2. Quickfix is the module you'll use most often. The invaluable "Beginnings Menu" will forever solve the problem of first sentences, paragraphs, and pages that make editors and readers stop reading...

3. Intervention is the module for fixing major problems that plague even the most experienced writers from time to time. You'll see how to reorganize work for maximum suspense. How to write erotic scenes effectively. How to master point of view, flashbacks, how to give your writing literary value and resonance.

4. Nonfiction is the module that shows journalists and other writers how to use the best techniques of successful fiction writers to improve the pace, tension, resonance, and originality of nonfiction.

5. Refresher is the "instant memory" module that enables writers to remember quickly what they didn't know they had forgotten, a godsend for writers who don't write every day, and help to those who do.

Much of the techniques in these modules have never before been available. In private instruction the QuickFix and Intervention modules alone would cost more than ten thousand dollars. All of it is contained in this program and is guaranteed to improve your writing more than you ever dreamed possible.

First Aid Shows You...
• How seasoned professionals create suspense that keeps the reader reading.
• How to write erotic scenes that work.
• How to use movie techniques to make writing move fast.
• How to use the secret snapshot technique, a breakthrough for talented writers.
• How you can imagine scenes you didn't know you could write.
• How to eliminate writer's block forever.

PLUS...
• How to create beginnings that grab and hold the reader.
• How to write descriptions that make indoor and outdoor locales and physical objects spring to life.
• How to improve major and minor characters to make them instantly memorable.

Who is behind FirstAid?
The creator of FirstAid, Sol Stein, is a prize-winning playwright produced on Broadway, an anthologized poet, the author of nine novels including the million-copy-seller, The Magician, plus nonfiction books, screenplays, and TV dramas. He has edited and published some of the most successful writers of our century: James Baldwin, F. Lee Bailey, David Frost, Jack Higgins, and Elia Kazan, none of whom had published major work until they came under Stein's guidance. Most important, Stein won the Distinguished Instructor Award from the University of California for his amazing work with beginners.


FirstAid for Writers®
Diagram of Modules and Subsections

Main Menu

• Gearing Up
  • Secret Snapshots- Reaching for Hidden Treasure
  • Imagining Scenes That Couldn't Possibly Happen
  • Eliminating Writer's Block
  • Backstory
  • Advanced Backstory
  • Plot Backstory
  • Titles & Handles
• Quickfix
  • Beginnings
    • First Sentences
    • First Paragraphs
    • Turning On the Engine
  • Plotting
    • Creating Dramatic Conflict
    • Building Suspense
    • Increasing Tension
  • Description
    • People
    • Physical Objects
    • Indoor Environments
    • Out-of-doors
  • Pace
    • Pace Basics
    • Flipping Forward
    • Jump-cutting
    • Making Offstage Action Move
  • Characterization
    • Protagonists And Antagonists
    • Making Minor Characters Come Alive
    • Naming Characters
  • Strengthening the Storytelling
    • Adjectives and Adverbs - The Admission Test
    • Concealing Exposition
    • Keeping Your Hand Off the Telegraph Key
    • Importance
    • Other Senses
• Intervention
  • Architectural Suspense
  • Erotic Scene Creation Part One
  • Erotic Scene Creation Part Two
  • Point of View
    • Testing First Person P.O.V.
    • Testing Third Person P.O.V.
    • Testing Omniscient Author's P.O.V.
    • A Liberating Exercise
  • Flashbacks
  • Clich‚-hunting
  • Literary Values
  • Resonance
  • Different Drumming
• Nonfiction
  • Nonfiction Beginnings
  • Special Characters
  • Bystanders
  • Nonfiction Conflict and Drama
  • Page-turners: Suspense in Nonfiction
  • The Uses of Tension
  • The Dangers of Dialogue
  • Adding Strength
  • Tapping Your Originality
• Refresher
  • What To Do First
  • Major Characters
  • Minor Characters
  • Credible Conflicts
  • Evaluating Scenes
  • Testing Motivation
  • Testing Coincidence
  • The First Page
  • Beginning the General Revision
  • When the Revision Is Finished