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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface: For the Reader Who Is Also a Writer
The Responsibilities of the Writer
1. The Reader Is Looking for an Experience
2. Is Conflict a Necessity?
3. Capturing the Reader
4. Success Lies in Seeing the Details
5. Characters Who Are Characters
6. Backstage: Where Writers Get Their Plots
7. Our Native Language Is Not Dialogue
8. Getting Intimate with the Reader: Advanced Point of View
9. Do You Promise to Tell the Truth, So Help You?
10. Where Writers Go Wrong
11. How to Pilot Words Precisely
12. You Have All the Time You Need
13. Revision as Opportunity—and Danger
14. Some Fundamentals for Emigrants from Nonfiction
15. A Few Guidelines for Living Forever
The Responsibilities of the Publisher
16. The Prospect Before Us
17. Putting Out to the World
18. Midlist, and Other Fictions of Publishing
Envoi
19. Welcome to the 21st Century
Practical Matters
20. Appendix One: The Little Things That Damage the Writer’s Authority
21. Appendix Two: Where Writers Get Help
Glossary
By the Same Author
Copyright
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