What's the Story?

Rudolph H. Weingartner spent his adult life as a teacher of philosophy and an academic administrator. Although he has written several books and quite a few articles, this is his first effort in the realm of fiction.Isaias Zelkowicz has been playing the viola professionally for forty years, the last thirty-one of them with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has been drawing even longer than that.

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!

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Cast of Characters Number One: Six Personages, New York City, the Present TimeChapter 3 Cast of Characters Number Two: Five Personages, Siena, Italy, the Present TimeChapter 4 Cast of Characters Number Three: Six Personages, Small Nebraska Town, the Present TimeChapter 5 Cast of Characters Number Four: Four Personages, Small West Virginia Town, the Present TimeChapter 6 Cast of Characters Number FIve: Six Personages, Chicago, the Present TimeChapter 7 Cast of Characters Number Six: Six Personages, Pittsburgh, the Present TImeChapter 8 Cast of Characters Number Seven: Seven Personages, New York City, the Present TimeChapter 9 Cast of Characters Number Eight: Four Personages, San Francisco, 1946Chapter 10 Cast of Characters Number Nine: Four Personages, Chicago, the Present TImeChapter 11 Cast of Characters Number Ten: FIve Personages, College in New England, the Present TimeChapter 12 Cast of Characters Number Eleven: Five Personages, Olean, New York, 1866Chapter 13 Cast of Characters Number Twelve: Five Personages, Paris, c. 1950Chapter 14 Cast of Characters Number Thirteen: Five Personages, Washington, DC and Texas, the Present TimeChapter 15 Cast of Characters Number Fourteen: Five Personages, Long Island, the Present TimeChapter 16 Cast of Characters Number Fifteen: Five Personages, an American College, Vietnam War PeriodChapter 17 Cast of Characters Number Sixteen: Four Personages, the Pacific Ocean, World War IIChapter 18 Cast of Characters Number Seventeen: Five Personages, Mexico City, the Early SeventiesChapter 19 Cast of Characters Number Eighteen: Five Personages, Heidelberg, Germany, 1936Chapter 20 Cast of Characters Number Nineteen: Five Personages, New York City, the Present TimeChapter 21 Cast of Characters Number Twenty: Five Personages, the Bay Area, c. 2001Chapter 22 About the Author and About the Illustrator