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Index
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Voice
1. Telling Begins in an Atmosphere of Urgency
2. Voice: Your Most Powerful Tool
3. The Writer as Singer
4. The Importance of Raw Voice
5. The Voice as an Instrument
6. Inner Listening
7. Distilling Voice
8. Inviting Accidents
9. Listening to the Voice of Childhood
10. Public and Private Voices
11. The Sound of Colloquial Voice
12. The Chorus of Voice
13. Who’s Speaking?: Voice and Character
14. Capturing the Inner Critic
15. Learning to Spot the Imposter
16. The Writer as Presence
17. Becoming a Prose Thief
18. Using the Journal Dangerously
19. Writing in the Pressure Cooker: Leading Raw Voice into the Story
20. If
Story
21. Craft and the Voice of the Story
22. Going Deeper into the Story: Voice as Composer and Instrumentalist
23. From Anecdotes to Stories
24. Catalysts for the Story: Character-, Plot-, and Vision-Driven Stories
25. Working with Short Forms to Discover Your Story
26. Point of View
27. Meeting the First-Person Narrator
28. Working with Third Person: Discovering a Narrative Persona
29. Secrets as a Key to Character
30. Finding Dialogue through Impersonation
31. Voice and Tone
32. To Plot or Not to Plot
33. Gender Bending, Race Switching, and Beyond
34. Unity: Discovering a Story’s Design
35. Returning to the Pressure Cooker
Revision
36. Revision: Exploding the Myth
37. The Art of Reading Your Own Fiction
38. Should Dick Have a Beard?: Meeting Your Editors
39. Listening for the Story Editor
40. Listening for the Sentence Editor
41. The Timing of Revision
42. How to Surprise Yourself in the Middle of Your Story
43. Filtering Feedback
44. When to Rewrite from Scratch
45. Talking to the Stranger: Another Angle on Revision
Keeping Voice Alive
46. Returning to Raw Voice
47. Voice over the Long Haul
48. Audacity and Ruthlessness: (De)Constructing a Writer’s Life
49. The Writer as Character
50. Writing during Hard Times
51. Some Truths about Truth-Telling
52. The Importance of Lying
53. Becoming Your Own Sovereign
About the Authors
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Copyright Acknowledgements
Copyright
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