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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
About the Author
Chapter 1: The Emotional Craft of Fiction
Chapter 2: Inner Versus Outer
Outer Mode: Showing
Inner Mode: Telling
Other Mode
Chapter 3: The Emotional World
Me-Centered Narration
Emotional Scale
Stirring Higher Emotions
Moral Stakes
Chapter 4: Emotions, Meaning, and Arc
Connecting the Inner and Outer Journey
Tension Versus Energy
Chapter 5: The Emotional Plot
Emotional Openings
Why Readers Really Fall in Love with Protagonists
The Emotional Midpoint
Failure and Defeat
Catalyst and Catharsis
Scenes in Which Nothing Happens
Emotional Goals in Scenes
Emotional Breakthroughs: Getting Real
Plotting the Non-Plot-Driven Novel
The True Ending
Chapter 6: The Reader's Emotional Journey
High Moments
Symbols
Story Worlds We Don’t Want to Leave
Change
Seasons of the Self
Newton’s Law for Novelists: Cascading Change
Feelings Without Names
Chapter 7: The Writer's Emotional Journey
Positive Spirit
The Emotional Mirror
Love Thy Neighbor: Decency and Goodness
Magnanimous
The Current
Conclusion
The Emotional Mastery Checklist
Acknowledgments
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