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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part 1 - Getting Started
Chapter 1 - Germs
Chapter 2 - Writing Prompts
Chapter 3 - Nothing But The Truth
Chapter 4 - Fiction Through Artifacts; or, How to Justify a Love of Accumulating Junk
Chapter 5 - The Importance Of Being Envious
Chapter 6 - Mourning Falls, Usa
Chapter 7 - A Postcard From The Velvet Revolution
Chapter 8 - What If It Was More Than That?
Chapter 9 - The Title Game Exercise
Chapter 10 - Living To Tell, Telling To Live: Three Literary Exercises
Chapter 11 - My Favorite Fiction-Writing Exercise
Chapter 12 - How To Name The World: An Exercise In Research
Chapter 13 - Untold Stories: An Exercise To Generate Fiction
Chapter 14 - Bullies I Have Known
Chapter 15 - Our Ever-Curious Minds
Chapter 16 - Adopt A Myth
Part 2 - Character
On Character
Chapter 17 - Writing As Parlor Game
Chapter 18 - Object Of Affection: Prose Exercises
Chapter 19 - Nonfiction Time-Travel Exercise
Chapter 20 - Your Five Seconds Of Shame!
Chapter 21 - Interviewing Your Character
Chapter 22 - From Autobiography To Fiction
Chapter 23 - Putting Characters Into Action
Chapter 24 - Subversive Details And Characterization
Chapter 25 - Complex Characters
Chapter 26 - Two Literary Exercises
Chapter 27 - Get Closer: Exposing Your Characters (With Compassion)
Chapter 28 - Through Your Character's Eyes
Part 3 - Point Of View And Tone
On Point Of View
Chapter 29 - Strategies Of The Storyteller: Point Of View
Chapter 30 - Exercise On Point Of View
Chapter 31 - The Point Of Point Of View
Chapter 32 - An Exercise In Writing Memoir
Chapter 33 - What Do You Want Most In Life?: A Point-Of-View And Character Exercise
Chapter 34 - Point-Of-View Exercise For Prose Writers
Chapter 35 - Two Exercises
Chapter 36 - The Chicken Crossed The Road
Chapter 37 - Walking A Mile In Their Shoes: Developing Character Through Alternate Points Of View
Chapter 38 - The Glory Of Gossip: An Exercise In Pov
Part 4 - Plot And Narrative
On Plot And Narrative
Chapter 39 - The Five Modes
Chapter 40 - Thickening Your Plots
Chapter 41 - The Pleasure Principle
Chapter 42 - From Anecdote To Story
Chapter 43 - Seeing The Scene
Chapter 44 - The Particular Gesture: Writing Sex Scenes
Chapter 45 - Creating The Memory Map: For Your Memoir
Chapter 46 - Useful Lies
Chapter 47 - Rewriting The ClichÉs
Chapter 48 - From Imagination To Plot
Chapter 49 - What Every Fiction Writer Can Learn About Plot From That Lovable, Furry Old Grover
Chapter 50 - On Plot
Chapter 51 - Recycling Props
Part 5 - Dialogue And Voice
On Dialogue And Voice
Chapter 52 - Dynamic Dialogue: Three Exercises
Chapter 53 - He Said What?
Chapter 54 - Character And Situation Through Dialogue
Chapter 55 - On Dialogue
Chapter 56 - The Thing About Dialogue
Chapter 57 - Using Summary, Indirect, And Direct Dialogue
Chapter 58 - Dialogue: Master Of Multitasking And Sleight Of Hand
Chapter 59 - The Foreign Voice
Chapter 60 - A Dialogue Exercise
Part 6 - Descriptive Language and Setting
On Descriptive Language And Setting
Chapter 61 - Destroying What You Love: An Exercise In Setting
Chapter 62 - A Stranger Comes To Town
Chapter 63 - The Monster In The Attic
Chapter 64 - Simultaneous Actions In Fiction
Chapter 65 - Learning To Lie: An Exercise In Details
Chapter 66 - Artistic Perspective
Chapter 67 - All About Rhythm
Chapter 68 - Emotion In Fiction
Part 7 - Revision
On Revision
Chapter 69 - The First Draft Of Anything
Chapter 70 - On The Wheel: Revising The Personal Essay
Chapter 71 - Silences And Blank Spaces
Chapter 72 - Reseeing In Revision
Chapter 73 - Revise, Reenvision, Reinvent
Chapter 74 - Hiding The / In Fiction And Nonfiction
Chapter 75 - Shopping For Conflict In The Second Draft
Chapter 76 - The Right Word In Tails
Part 8 - Daily Warm-Ups
A Note About Daily Warm-Ups
Chapter 77 - Daily Warm-Ups
Acknowledgments
Notes On Contributors
About The Editor
Copyright
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