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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Before Buying This Book
Part 1: The Touch of a Golden Thread
Chapter 1: The Bookman
Chapter 2: The Secret All Beginning Writers Want to Know
Part 2: Inhabiting the Word
Chapter 3: On the Art of Nonfiction
Chapter 4: You Must Begin with Something Deeper in the Self
Chapter 5: “The Road of Feeling”
FEELING
EMOTIONS
FEELINGS
Chapter 6: “It Burns the Blood Like Powdered Glass”
ON THE MEANING OF THE EXERCISE
Chapter 7: The Skill of Duende
Chapter 8: Following Golden Threads
Part 3: Dreaming and the Journey to the Imaginal
Chapter 9: “A Certain Adjustment of Consciousness”
Chapter 10: “The Secret Kinesis of Things”
Chapter 11: Aisthesis
Chapter 12: Synaesthetic Writing and the Beginnings of Analogical Thought
SOME COMMENTS ON THE WORD
Chapter 13: Analogical Thinking
ANALOGICAL THOUGHT AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE MYTHIC
Chapter 14: The Dreamer and the “Secret Room where Dreams Prowl”
WRITING AS INTENTIONAL DREAMING
THE SECRET ROOM WHERE DREAMS PROWL
SOME SUGGESTIONS
Chapter 15: The Imaginal Realm
Chapter 16: Poesis
Part 4: On Technique
Chapter 17: The First Draft and the Beginnings of Revision
CHOOSING WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT
BEGINNING A FIRST DRAFT
Chapter 18: Problems and Further Revisioning
NEW MUSCLES
EROS
Chapter 19: Clichéd Thinking and Killing the Genuine
THE DRAMA TRIANGLE
Chapter 20: Hidden Baggage
UNCONSCIOUS BAGGAGE
EMBARRASSED BAGGAGE
EGO BAGGAGE
Chapter 21: Some Subtle Refinements of the Art
TENTATIVENE
READING FOR FEEL
FURTHER REFINEMENTS
MOVEMENT CYCLES
LAYOUT AND THE BOOK AS PHYSICAL OBJECT
SOME FINAL COMMENTS ON TECHNIQUE
Chapter 22: Grammar Nazis and Editors-from-Hell
SPLIT INFINITIVES
SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
CONJUNCTIONS AND CONNECTIVES
SINGULAR THEY
SOME FINAL ADVICE
Chapter 23: Some Final Words on the Writing Life
Epilogue
The Appendices
Appendix A
THE PUBLISHERS
THE MONEY
ROYALTY STATEMENTS AND CONTRACT
ABOUT EDITORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE NOT
OTHERS PLAYERS OF NOTE
VARIATIONS ON A THEME: THE NEW YORK HOUSES
Appendix B
THINGS YOU REALLY DO NEED TO DO FIRST
DEVELOPING THE PROPOSAL
THE REALITIES OF THE PROPOSAL
OTHER FORMS OF THE PROPOSAL
SUBMITTING PROPOSALS
Appendix C
SUGGESTED BOOKS ON WRITING
WRITER’S ASSOCIATIONS
A FINAL THANKS
FULL DISCLOSURE
IN MEMORIAM
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Copyright & Permissions
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