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Preface | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Beginner's Mind, Pen and Paper | p. 5 |
First Thoughts | p. 8 |
Writing as a Practice | p. 11 |
Composting | p. 15 |
Artistic Stability | p. 18 |
A List of Topics for Writing Practice | p. 21 |
Fighting Tofu | p. 25 |
Trouble with the Editor | p. 28 |
Elkton, Minnesota: Whatever's in Front of You | p. 29 |
Tap the Water Table | p. 32 |
We Are Not the Poem | p. 34 |
Man Eats Car | p. 36 |
Writing Is Not a McDonald's Hamburger | p. 39 |
Obsessions | p. 42 |
Original Detail | p. 45 |
The Power of Detail | p. 47 |
Baking a Cake | p. 50 |
Living Twice | p. 53 |
Writers Have Good Figures | p. 55 |
Listening | p. 57 |
Don't Marry the Fly | p. 60 |
Don't Use Writing to Get Love | p. 62 |
What Are Your Deep Dreams? | p. 65 |
Syntax | p. 67 |
Nervously Sipping Wine | p. 72 |
Don't Tell, but Show | p. 75 |
Be Specific | p. 77 |
Big Concentration | p. 79 |
The Ordinary and Extraordinary | p. 81 |
Talk Is the Exercise Ground | p. 84 |
Writing Is a Communal Act | p. 86 |
One Plus One Equals a Mercedes-Benz | p. 89 |
Be an Animal | p. 90 |
Make Statements and Answer Questions | p. 93 |
The Action of a Sentence | p. 95 |
Writing in Restaurants | p. 98 |
The Writing Studio | p. 103 |
A Big Topic: Eroticism | p. 105 |
A Tourist in Your Own Town | p. 108 |
Write Anyplace | p. 110 |
Go Further | p. 112 |
Engendering Compassion | p. 114 |
Doubt Is Torture | p. 117 |
A Little Sweet | p. 119 |
A New Moment | p. 120 |
Why Do I Write? | p. 122 |
Every Monday | p. 126 |
More About Mondays | p. 128 |
Spontaneous Writing Booths | p. 130 |
A Sensation of Space | p. 133 |
A Large Field to Wander In | p. 136 |
The Goody Two-Shoes Nature | p. 140 |
No Hindrances | p. 144 |
A Meal You Love | p. 147 |
Use Loneliness | p. 149 |
Blue Lipstick and a Cigarette Hanging Out Your Mouth | p. 151 |
Going Home | p. 152 |
A Story Circle | p. 156 |
Writing Marathons | p. 160 |
Claim Your Writing | p. 164 |
Trust Yourself | p. 167 |
The Samurai | p. 169 |
Rereading and Rewriting | p. 172 |
I Don't Want to Die | p. 177 |
Epilogue | p. 179 |
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