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| Introduction | |
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| Telling Begins in an Atmosphere of Urgency | |
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| Voice: Your Most Powerful Tool | |
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| The Writer as Singer | |
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| The Importance of Raw Voice | |
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| The Voice as an Instrument | |
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| Inner Listening | |
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| Distilling Voice | |
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| Inviting Accidents | |
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| Listening to the Voice of Childhood | |
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| Public and Private Voices | |
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| The Sound of Colloquial Voice | |
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| The Chorus of Voice | |
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| Who's Speaking?: Voice and Character | |
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| Capturing the Inner Critic | |
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| Learning to Spot the Imposter | |
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| The Writer as Presence | |
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| Becoming a Prose Thief | |
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| Using the Journal Dangerously | |
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| Writing in the Pressure Cooker: Leading Raw Voice into the Story | |
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| If | |
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| Craft and the Voice of the Story | |
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| Going Deeper into the Story: Voice as Composer and Instrumentalist | |
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| From Anecdotes to Stories | |
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| Catalysts for the Story: Character-, Plot-, and Vision-Driven Stories | |
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| Working with Short Forms to Discover Your Story | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Meeting the First-Person Narrator | |
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| Working with Third Person: Discovering a Narrative Persona | |
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| Secrets as a Key to Character | |
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| Finding Dialogue through Impersonation | |
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| Voice and Tone | |
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| To Plot or Not to Plot | |
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| Gender Bending, Race Switching, and Beyond | |
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| Unity: Discovering a Story's Design | |
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| Returning to the Pressure Cooker | |
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| Revision: Exploding the Myth | |
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| The Art of Reading Your Own Fiction | |
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| Should Dick Have a Beard?: Meeting Your Editors | |
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| Listening for the Story Editor | |
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| Listening for the Sentence Editor | |
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| The Timing of Revision | |
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| How to Surprise Yourself in the Middle of Your Story | |
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| Filtering Feedback | |
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| When to Rewrite from Scratch | |
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| Talking to the Stranger: Another Angle on Revision | |
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| Returning to Raw Voice | |
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| Voice over the Long Haul | |
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| Audacity and Ruthlessness: (De)Constructing a Writer's Life | |
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| The Writer as Character | |
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| Writing during Hard Times | |
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| Some Truths about Truth-Telling | |
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| The Importance of Lying | |
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| Becoming Your Own Sovereign | |