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| How to Use This Book About the Writers Approaches | |
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| The Stories Notes on Craft and Context Imitation Following Your Own Lead Applications, Connections, and Exercises | |
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| The Approach: Variations on a Theme Teaching Imitation Advanced Exercises Practice Makes a Better Practitioner | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Theory and Practice: An Introduction | |
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| Reading and Imitating the Master Stylist | |
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| Plot and Structure | |
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| The Art of the Echo Andrea Barrett | |
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| "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds" Writer’s View “ | |
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| The Behavior of the Hawkweeds” | |
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| Notes on Craft and Context On Point of View in Structure On Characterization in Structure On Theme in Structure | |
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| On Theme in Plot On Timespan: The Structure of Plot | |
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| On Plot and Structure: Putting it Together Writer’s View | |
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| On History and Invention Writer’s View Applications and Connections Exercises | |
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| A Primer for Narrative Styles. Self-reflexive Fiction and the World Within the World John Barth | |
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| "Lost in the Funhouse" Writer’s View “Lost in the Funhouse” | |
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| Notes on Craft and Context On Form and Language in Style On Theme in Style Author as Character | |
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| Character as Author On Fiction about Fiction “Lost in the Funhouse” as a Primer for Narrative Styles On Self-reflexive Imitation Writer’s View Applications and Connections Exercises Examples of Student Work Genevieve Kolasa | |
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| Exercise 4 Erin Hockenberry | |
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| Exercise 10 | |
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| Character and the Epiphanic Moment. Learning to Reveal the Hidden Charles Baxter | |
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| "Fenstad’s Mother" Writer’s View “Fenstad’s Mother” | |
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| Notes on Craft and Context On Plot in Characterization Counterpointed Characterization: Protagonist and Antagonist | |
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| The Epiphanic Moment Humor and Dialogue in Characterization Extras: Allusions in Characterization Life Off the Page: Development of Minor Characters On Real Characters Writer’s View Applications and Connections Exercises | |
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| Dialogue. Minimalism and the Monologue Raymond Carver | |
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| "A Small Good Thing" Writer’s View “A Small Good Thing” Notes on Craft and Context On Economy in Language and Dialogue On Expansion as Revision Fleshing Out a Story On Character: Names and Distance | |
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| On Point of View and Distance On the Selection of Details On Dialogue and Monologue Writer’s View | |
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| On Evoking Emotional Intensity Through Restraint Applications and Connections | |
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| Exercises Examples of Student Work Dena Zamore: Exercise 3 Ray Howell: Exercise 4 | |
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| Theme and the Selection of Details. Writing in Retrospect Richard Ford | |
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| "Communist" Writer’s View “Communist” Notes on Craft and Context Details: On Timespan Writing Up Close Writing at a Distance Summary vs. Dialogue Details: On What’s Left Unsaid | |
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| The Selection of Details On Details in Theme | |
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| On Setting in Theme Writer’s View Applications and Connections Exercises | |
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| Compression | |
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| Prose as Architecture Ernest Hemingway | |
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| " " "In Another Country" Writer’s View “ | |
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| Chapter VII” Notes on Craft and Context On Compression and Style On Point of View in Style On Word Choice and Syntax “In Another Country” Notes on Craft and Context | |
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| On Tense and Point of View | |
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| On Dialogue and Language | |
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| On Prose as Architecture Writer’s View | |
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| Applications | |