| Welcome to Writing Club Workshops | 1 |
| How to Use This Book | 2 |
| Workshop Overview: Poetry Club | 5 |
| List Poems | 6 |
| Poetic Licenses | 8 |
| The Playground | 9 |
| "Dear" Poems | 10 |
| Dear Mr. Foot | 12 |
| Nonsense Poems | 13 |
| Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll | 14 |
| Poor Jam Timna | 15 |
| Thesaurus Poems | 16 |
| Cotton Candy | 18 |
| Hodgepodge Haikus | 19 |
| Hodgepodge Haiku | 21 |
| Workshop Overview: Take Me to Your Leader | 22 |
| UFO Diaries | 23 |
| Earthling Identification Cards | 25 |
| Odes | 26 |
| Ode to My Shoelaces | 27 |
| Postcards | 28 |
| Dear Mom and Dad | 29 |
| Instructions | 30 |
| Instructions for Making a Jelly Sandwich | 32 |
| Workshop Overview: Million Dollar Fun | 33 |
| Newspaper Story | 34 |
| Million Dollar Checks | 36 |
| Local Boy Eats His Way to a Million | 37 |
| Radio Ad | 38 |
| Ad for a Home | 40 |
| Move Right In ... | 42 |
| A Letter Home | 43 |
| Dear Friends | 45 |
| Endorsement | 46 |
| An Endorsement from Sam Thomas | 48 |
| Workshop Overview: What a Character! | 49 |
| Story Starters | 50 |
| Story Starter Illustration | 52 |
| Story Beginning | 53 |
| Character Cards | 54 |
| Character Cards | 56 |
| Profiles | 57 |
| Character Profile Illustration | 59 |
| Meet Mary Watson | 60 |
| Motivation | 61 |
| What's My Motivation? | 63 |
| Workshop Overview: Press Club | 64 |
| Time for a Commercial | 65 |
| Press Passes | 67 |
| Reviews | 68 |
| My Brother the Pest | 70 |
| Interviews | 71 |
| My Interview Notes | 73 |
| Adding Humor | 74 |
| Workshop Overview: Fairy Tales | 76 |
| Retelling "Cinderella" | 77 |
| Comparing Cinderella Stories | 78 |
| Frequent Flyer Passes | 79 |
| I'm Sorry Letter | 80 |
| The Other "True" Story | 82 |
| Story Outline | 84 |
| Wordy Openings | 85 |
| Beware of Wordy Beginnings! | 86 |
| Tall Tales | 87 |
| Why I Don't Have My Homework | 88 |
| Workshop Overview: Crazy for Comics | 89 |
| Captions | 90 |
| Funny Bones | 92 |
| "Kid-sty" illustration | 93 |
| Hero Vs. Villain | 94 |
| Protagonist/Antagonist Profile | 96 |
| Protagonist/Antagonist Worksheet | 97 |
| Three-Panel Comic Strip | 98 |
| "The Nose": Three-panel Comic Strip | 100 |
| Three-panel Comic Strip Worksheet | 101 |
| Six-Panel Comic Strip | 102 |
| "The Nose": Six-panel Comic Strip | 104 |
| Six-panel Comic Strip Worksheet | 105 |
| Single Panels | 106 |
| Single Panel Worksheet | 108 |
| Workshop Overview: Kaleidoscope | 109 |
| A Penny's Journey | 110 |
| You Are Never Going to Believe the Day I Had! | 112 |
| Brick Brainstorm | 113 |
| Word-A-Rama | 114 |
| White Elephant Ads | 115 |
| Free to a Good Home: One Pink Pig Lamp | 116 |
| How to Overcome the Dreaded "Do I Really Need to Revise My Work?" Blues | 117 |
| Desk Revision Card | 120 |
| Revision Cards | 121 |
| What to Try When You Have Writer's Block | 124 |