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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Me
The Chicken or the Egg?
Part II: You
The Beginning of all Literature: Your Body
Guzzling and Snorting
Sex, Love, and rock ’n Roll
The Ivory Tower and the City Desk
Computers and Other Expensive Knickknacks
Part III: The Work
Words as Separate Units of Consciousness
The Two English Languages
Verbs, or Put the Pedal to the Metal
The Passive Voice, or the Secret Agent
Hybrids: The Alchemy of the English Language
Dialogue: The Secrets of Idiosyncratic Speech
Character Development: Being a Thief of Souls
Plot, as in “The Plot Thickens”
The Subjunctive: The Empire of the Shadow Senses
A Sidelight on English Preoccupations
Myth and Symbol, as Opposed to Hit or Myth
Writing as a Moral Act
Exercises
Part IV: Ad Hoc
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or Readers, Publishers, and Critics
Literary Vaudeville: The Road Tour
Hot Cash and Cold Comfort
Magazine Articles
Nonfiction and Other Lies
Short Stories
Plays
Screenplays and Teleplays: How Not to Break Your Heart
Shorthand: Novel Versus Screenplay
A Circumflex Accent: Bending Back
Change Reality; Don’t Abandon It
Part V
A Literary Conservatory
Part VI
An Annotated Reading List
Reading List
About the Author
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