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Index
Author’s Note
Part One: Exposition
1. Random Scenes
2. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
3. They Fell Like Feathers
4. My Real Life Was Boring
5. Flesh and Soul Better
6. My Uncle’s Funeral and a Wedding
7. Going to See the Professor
8. The Elements of a Meaningful Life
9. How Jason Saved His Family
Part Two: A Character
10. Writing the World
11. Imperfect Is Perfect
12. You’ll Be Different at the End
13. A Character Is What He Does
14. Saving the Cat
15. Listen to Your Writer
16. Something on the Page
Part Three: A Character Who Wants Something
17. How to Make Yourself Write a Better Story
18. A n Inciting Incident
19. Pointing Toward the Horizon
20. Negative Turns
21. A Good Story, Hijacked
22. A Practice Story
23. A Positive Turn
24. Meeting Bob
Part Four: A Character Who Wants Something and Overcomes Conflict
25. A Better Story
26. The Thing About a Crossing
27. The Pain Will Bind Us
28. A Tree in a Story About a Forest
29. The Reason God Hasn’t Fixed You Yet
30. Great Stories Have Memorable Scenes
Part Five: A Character Who Wants Something and Overcomes Conflict to Get It
31. Squeezing the Cat
32. The Beauty of a Tragedy
33. All You Have to Do Is Try
34. To Speak Something into Nothing
35. Summer Snow in Delaware
36. Where Once There Was Nothing
Afterword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
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