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Index
Praise for the Writer’s Idea Book
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Author’s Foreword to the New Edition
Introduction
Part I: Inviting Ideas
Chapter 1: Making Your Way to Schenectady
Chapter 2: Enemies of Creativity
Chapter 3: Leading a Creative Life
Chapter 4: Reading is Fundamental
Part II: Exploring Ideas
Chapter 5: I Yam What I Yam and Other Lies
Chapter 6: Schnitzel with Noodles
Chapter 7: Nellie Malone from Fifth and Stone
Chapter 8: with a Banjo on My Knee
Chapter 9: Thoughts of a Sun-Drenched Elsewhere
Chapter 10: 9 to 5
Chapter 11: What’s Your Road, Man?
Chapter 12: The Love You Make
Chapter 13: Don’t Get Me Started
Chapter 14: Your Fifteen Minutes
Chapter 15: All Our Secrets are the Same
Chapter 16: Trouble with a Capital T
Chapter 17: Minding Other People’s Business
Chapter 18: A Day in the Life of a Writer
Chapter 19: A Life of the Spirit
Part III: Finding Form for Ideas
Chapter 20: Of Sonnets and Toasters
Chapter 21: Folks Like You
Chapter 22: The Shape of Things to Come
Chapter 23: It All Depends on Your Point of View
Chapter 24: Other Rooms, Other Voices
Chapter 25: Vast is the Power of Cities
Chapter 26: Dot the Dragon’s Eye
Chapter 27: Western Union
Chapter 28: It was the Best of Times
Chapter 29: A Sort of Miracle
Chapter 30: Rubik’s Cube
Part IV: Evaluating Ideas
Chapter 31: The Water’s Fine
Chapter 32: Stoking the Fire
Chapter 33: A Matter of Perspective
Chapter 34: Occasions and Opportunities
Chapter 35: Good Cop, Bad Cop
Chapter 36: UPS, GPS, and WTF
Chapter 37: Blow It Up
Part V: Better Ideas
Chapter 38: Stuck at the Start
Chapter 39: Stuck in Development
Chapter 40: Stuck in the Middle
Chapter 41: Stuck at the End
Chapter 42: When You’re Stuck in Revision
Chapter 43: Till We Eat Again
About the Author
Copyright Page
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