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Index
Preface
Introduction
Part I
The Spiritual Heart of Writing Christian Fiction
Mastery 1
An (Accepting) Audience of One
Mastery 2
Examine Your Desire to Be Published
Mastery 3
The Invisible Novelist
Mastery 4
Understand Your Calling as a Novelist
Mastery 5
Be Teachable
Mastery 6
Stop Being Teachable
Part II
Strategizing Yourself, Strategizing Your Novel
Mastery 7
Change the Metaphor You Use for Yourself as a Novelist
Mastery 8
Should You Write What You Want or What the Market Wants?
Mastery 9
How to Find Your Story
Mastery Cluster 1
Character
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 10
Create Interesting Characters (Who Don’t All Sound Like You)
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 11
Create a Likable Protagonist
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 12
Your Hero’s Inner Journey
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 13
When Do People Change?
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 14
What Does Your Hero Want?
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 15
How To Bring Your Main Characters Onstage
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 16
Differentiating Multiple Similar Characters
Mastery Cluster 1: Character
Mastery 17
Characters Serving Plot
Mastery 18
The Ticking Time Bomb
Mastery 19
The Deus Ex Machina
Mastery 20
A Sermon in the Middle of the Story
Mastery 21
The Bad Boy Gets Saved — The End
Part III
Writing Your Novel
Mastery 22
Starting Your Book
Mastery 23
Stay with One Storyline Before Cutting Away
Mastery 24
Whose Epic Is This?
Mastery Cluster 2
Showing vs. Telling
Mastery Cluster 2: Showing vs. Telling
Mastery 25
What Is Showing vs. Telling?
Mastery Cluster 2: Showing vs. Telling
Mastery 26
Flashbacks
Mastery Cluster 2: Showing vs. Telling
Mastery 27
The Ol’ Hop Over It and Recap It Later Trick
Mastery Cluster 2: Showing vs. Telling
Mastery 28
Understanding the Difference Between Description and Telling
Mastery Cluster 2: Showing vs. Telling
Mastery 29
Spot the Telling
Mastery Cluster 2: Showing vs. Telling
Mastery 30
When Can Readers Bear Exposition?
Mastery Cluster 2: Showing vs. Telling
Mastery 31
The Dumb Puppet Trick
Mastery Cluster 3
Point of View
Mastery Cluster 3: Point of View
Mastery 32
What Is Point of View?
Mastery Cluster 3: Point of View
Mastery 33
Spot the POV Error
Mastery Cluster 3: Point of View
Mastery 34
Establish Your POV Right Away
Mastery Cluster 3: Point of View
Mastery 35
The Viewpoint Character as Narrator
Mastery Cluster 4
Description
Mastery Cluster 4: Description
Mastery 36
Why Describe?
Mastery Cluster 4: Description
Mastery 37
The Establishing Shot
Mastery Cluster 4: Description
Mastery 38
The Full Sensory Sweep
Mastery Cluster 4: Description
Mastery 39
Comparisons
Mastery Cluster 4: Description
Mastery 40
Describe Actual Places
Mastery Cluster 4: Description
Mastery 41
Use Word Choice to Set Mood
Mastery 42
Beats
Mastery 43
Payoff without a Plant
Mastery 44
Plant without Payoff
Mastery Cluster 5
Dialogue
Mastery Cluster 5: Dialogue
Mastery 45
Stick with Said
Mastery Cluster 5: Dialogue
Mastery 46
Great Dialogue Is Realistic
Mastery Cluster 5: Dialogue
Mastery 47
Great Dialogue Is Layered
Mastery Cluster 5: Dialogue
Mastery 48
Great Dialogue Is Right for the Character and the Moment
Mastery Cluster 5: Dialogue
Mastery 49
Dialogue Reminders
Mastery Cluster 5: Dialogue
Mastery 50
Profanity — The Debate
Mastery Cluster 5: Dialogue
Mastery 51
Profanity — The Solution
Mastery 52
Circularity
Conclusion
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