In What's the Story? Rudolph Weingartner offers an original and intriguing approach to the teaching and learning of creative writing: he gives you the characters for different kinds of stories and urges you to mix and match them on your own. The book allows you to test what is often said, that the best fictional characters take on a life of their own. The illustrations are a hoot too!

Gerald Graff, 2008 President of the Modern Language Association, Professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Weingartner offers the struggling fiction writer numerous possibilities to inspire the art of writing.

Columbia College Today

The author gives readers a cast of characters and then asks them to invent a story. These casts can be used by an author, a teacher for the classroom, or as a game for writers' groups. Each cast is accompanied by an illustration to be used as a starting point and to stimulate the writer.

Writers' Journal

What's the Story is a creativity exercise of sorts, as Rudolph H. Weingartner gives a description of countless characters who he has created simple little profiles for. The exercise comes in creating stories surrounding these characters to help would be authors get a grasp on fiction writing. What's the Story is a fun and exciting way to practice the fiction writing process.

Midwest Book Review