3 AM Epiphany by Kiteley, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Table of Contents INTRODUCTION

EXERCISE MIX AND MATCH

THE EXERCISES

POINT OF VIEW

1. The Reluctant I 2. Imperative 3. Unreliable Third 4. The Unstable Self 5. Journalism 6. The Royal We 7. Family Consciousness 8. Third to First 9. Historical Omniscience 10. The Ironist 11. The Cheerful Spectator 12. An Execution 13. God

IMAGES

14. No Ideas, But in Things 15. Two Images Separated at Birth 16. Two Paintings 17. Synesthesia 18. TV 19. Canned Film 20. Colors 21. Clothes 22. Alarm Clock Dream 23. The Closet

CHARACTERS AND WAYS OF SEEING

24. Ways of Seeing 25. Names 26. Exes 27. Loveless 28. Loving 29. Evil 30. Absent 31. Intelligence 32. Friendship 33. Goodness 34. Chaos Follows 35. Wilderness 36. Beyond Words 37. Face Recognition 38. Sentenced to Death 39. Letters From Inside the Story 40. Doubling Up 41. You Oxymoron

WOMEN AND MEN

42. Invisible Woman 43. Control 44. The Argument 45. Food Fight 46. Intimacy 47. Smart Pets 48. Cooking 49. Binary Oppositions

CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD

50. Early Language 51. Associative Logic 52. What Maisie Knew 53. Cruelty 54. Child’s Play 55. Shy 56. Looking Backwards 57. Wrong Hall 58. Bedtime Story

CONVERSATION

59. Silent Partner 60. Body English 61. Character Building 62. The First Lie 63. Phone Tag 64. Finishing Each Other’s Sentences 65. Indirect Discourse 66. Reconstituted Talk 67. Travesty 68. Interrogation

THOUGHT AND EMOTION

69. Consciousness Slowed 70. Universal Freedom 71. Needs 72. Wants 73. Improvisation 74. True Feeling 75. Teacher 76. Witness Protection 77. Deathbed Conversions 78. Style 79. Mistaken Identity 80. Sleight of Hand 81. The Bunny Planet 82. Ignoble Subjects

BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

83. Public vs. Private 84. Fact and Fancy 85. Talismans 86. Interview 87. Research 88. Life of the Party 89. Biography 90. Funhouse Mirror 91. Leaving Out 92. Father and Son 93. Mother and Daughter

TIME

94. Life Story 95. Summary 96. One Moment 97. Déjà Vu 98. The Gap 99. Rashomon 100. Landscape and Time 101. Ghosts 102. A Happy Marriage

HISTORY

103. The Day After 104. What If 105. Revisionist History 106. Found History 107. Shoeshine 108. Censorship

DESCRIPTION

109. Nudes 110. Sweet and Sour 111. Home 112. The City 113. In the Belly of the Beast 114. Aromatherapy 115. Maps 116. Public Space vs. Private Space 117. Walking 118. Verisimilitude 119. Jeremiad

SENTENCES—BUTTING UP AGAINST EACH OTHER

120. Chapters 121. Underground History 122. E-Less 123. The Music of Prose 124. Listful 125. Russian Doll in Reverse 126. Backwards 127. Pantoum 128. Villanelle 129. Concrete Abstractions 130. Monotony 131. Repetition 132. Economy 133. Phone Book

OTHER PEOPLE’S SENTENCES

134. Logical Structure 135. Poetry 136. Collage 137. Beginnings 138. Ends 139. Middles 140. Jointly Held Story 141. The Bridge 142. Between the Lines 143. French 144. DeLillo 145. Top Ten Words of 2004 146. 100 Most Common Words 147. Living Flesh 148. Embedded Stories

PLAY AND GAMES

149. Rules of the Game 150. Vertigo 151. Different Strokes 152. Mimicry 153. Dice 154. Fantasy 155. War

SPORTS

156. The Team 157. Life or Death 158. Individual 159. The Seduction of Analogies

WORK

160. The Language of Work 161. Teamwork 162. Gravediggers 163. Loafing 164. Fight Choreographer

HUMOR

165. Stand-Up 166. The Wit and the Pendulum 167. The Joke 168. Incongruity 169. Serious Slapstick 170. Unintended Humor 171. Misdirection

TRAVEL

172. Arrivals 173. Departures 174. Digressions 175. Notebooks 176. Barbarians 177. Life As Text 178. Imaginary Travel 179. Imaginary Cities 180. Inside Jokes 181. Perpetual Return 182. Landscapes 183. The Double 184. Goodnight, Colorado

INTERNAL STRUCTURE

185. A Maze 186. An Iceberg 187. Two Parallel Lines 188. A Circle 189. The Infinity Symbol

EXERCISES FOR STORIES IN PROGRESS

190. Outrunning the Critic 191. Sensory Details 192. Rehearsal 193. Surprise 194. Postcards to France 195. Caught on Tape 196. E-Mail 197. Embracing the Mystery 198. Character Develops With Revision 199. Beyond Your Preconceptions 200. Q and A 201. Fill in the Blank

LIMBING UP APPENDICES

APPENDIX A: Advice for Writing Books APPENDIX B: Literary Friendships, Critiquing Your Own and Other People’s Stories

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