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| Preface to the Instructor | |
| Introduction | |
| Across The Genres: Exercises for Developing Craft and Technique | |
| Beginning/Points of Inspiration | |
| Keeping a Journal | |
| Personal Stories: History as Your Own Heartbeat | |
| Memory and Imagination | |
| Telling Lies to tell the Truth | |
| Voice, Tone and Style | |
| Finding Your True Subjects | |
| A Question of Style | |
| Conditional Voice | |
| Shifting Tone | |
| Breaking the Rules | |
| Perspective and Point of View | |
| Choosing a Point of View | |
| Embodying a Voice | |
| Innocent Perspective | |
| Using Biography | |
| Detail, Image, and Symbol | |
| Detailing a Story | |
| Turning Abstractions into Images and Action | |
| Using All of Your Senses | |
| Writing from Art | |
| Symbols, not Cymbals | |
| Figurative Language | |
| Diction | |
| Origins of Words | |
| Parts of Speech | |
| Foreign Flavor | |
| Surrealist game | |
| Simplify | |
| Tell-Tale Dialect | |
| Setting | |
| Setting with Personality | |
| Setting from Family History | |
| Setting Your Hometown | |
| Plot and Tension | |
| Foundations of Plot | |
| Reversing the Plot | |
| Trading Characters, Settings, and Conflicts | |
| Reverberating Closure | |
| Rhythm | |
| Finding Your Rhythm: Poetry in Prose | |
| Parallel Structures | |
| Listening to Nature | |
| Character and Speaker | |
| Populating a Piece | |
| Assuming a Voice | |
| Inside a Character's Mind | |
| Dialogue | |
| Dialogue Makes Character | |
| The Unsaid | |
| Dropping from the Eaves | |
| Conversations Between Texts | |
| Making the Old Story New | |
| Song and Story | |
| Kubla Khan Continued | |
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