Adams' practical handbook guides readers through a seven-step writing method with a focus on concrete daily activities. The author has spent over a decade teaching her writing method to a variety of audiences, helping to prompt procrastinators or aspiring writers who don't know how to get started. The steps cover topics including generating ideas; developing characters, settings, and plots; and drafting and revision. Each day's agenda begins with "warmups," moves on to a core activity, and concludes with "stretches." Readers are encouraged to begin with a clean slate, but they can also work on a project already in progress. The most helpful days are the fifth and seventh, when participants are expected to start some actual writing and to learn how to close-read and revise. The final section has suggestions on how to use the method beyond the initial brainstorming and kick-starting phase. The activities are all explained clearly and no doubt will prove easy to execute. The strengths of the workbook are its clarity, simplicity, and flexibility; writers who just need a nudge can use a few of these exercises in the space of an hour, while others may devote a week or more to completing all of the tasks comprehensively. This is a nuts-and-bolts guide to competently beginning a manuscript--there is no focus on the deep contemplation and insight that transform writing into meaningful art.