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| To the Teacher | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Growing the Story | |
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| Playing with Words | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Breaking the Rules | |
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| Writing Lists | |
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| When Freewriting Becomes Writing | |
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| Breaking the Non-Rules: Structured Freewrites | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Freewriting into a Scene | |
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| Focused Freewrites | |
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| Freewriting through a Block | |
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| The Flaming Freewrite | |
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| Moons and Eggplants: Verbal Still-Lifes | |
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| Concrete and Abstract Description | |
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| Rendering the Eggplant: Using Senses and Intellect | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Image Translations | |
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| The Image Log | |
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| Moon Chronicles | |
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| Writing Your Past | |
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| Growing Your Own Details | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Borrowing Details | |
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| Distancing Yourself | |
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| Avoiding Melodrama | |
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| Drawing Your Family Tree | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Ancestral Image List | |
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| Compared Memories | |
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| Dreamcatching | |
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| Dreams and Writing | |
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| Nocturnal Sources of Creativity | |
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| Envisioning or Interpreting: Dreams in Creative Work | |
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| Re-entering Your Dreams | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| A Dream Plan | |
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| Transmuting Your Dreams | |
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| As You Write | |
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| Exploration and Discovery | |
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| Ask Yourself | |
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| Ask Readers | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Drafting: Six Ways of Beginning a Story | |
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| The Seeds of a Story | |
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| Growing Ideas | |
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| Starting from Character | |
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| Writing Portrait | |
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| Writing Self-Portraits | |
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| Growing the Character | |
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| Writing without Models | |
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| Writing Composite Characters | |
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| Starting from Image | |
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| Growing the Image | |
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| Starting from Setting | |
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| The Significance of Place | |
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| Growing the Setting | |
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| Starting from Voice | |
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| Finding a Voice in "What Killed a Girl." | |
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| Finding Other Voices | |
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| Starting from Event | |
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| Why You Shouldn't Do It | |
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| When It's Okay to Do It | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Starting from Theme | |
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| As You Write | |
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| Exploration and Discovery | |
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| Ask Yourself | |
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| Ask Readers | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Elements of Fiction | |
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| Character | |
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| Character: A Story's Center | |
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| Character and Plot | |
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| Plot-centered Fiction | |
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| The Fantastic in the Real | |
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| Subordinating Plot to Character | |
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| Rendering Characters Concretely | |
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| Character and Setting | |
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| Exotic Settings | |
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| The Details of Place | |
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| Character and Theme | |
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| Letting Theme Emerge | |
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| Character and Technique | |
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| Methods of Characterization | |
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| Physical Description | |
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| Characterization by Contrast | |
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| The Narrator's Role in Characterization | |
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| Behavior | |
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| Fantasy and Reality | |
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| Voice and Speech | |
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| Multiple Voices | |
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| Voice in Secondary Character | |
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| As You Write | |
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| Exploration and Discovery | |
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| Ask Yourself | |
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| Ask Readers | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Plot | |
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| Plot: The Revelation of Character | |
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| The Narrative Arc | |
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| Exposition | |
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| Background Material: Integrating Exposition Subtly | |
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| Emotional Exposition | |
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| Even Quieter Exposition | |
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| Working with Large Amounts of Exposition | |
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| Slowing Down the Action | |
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| Evaluating Exposition | |
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| Rising Action: The Case of Little Red-Cap | |
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| Rising Action in Contemporary Fiction | |
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| Rising Action and Foreshadowing | |
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| Understating the Events | |
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| The Climax | |
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| A Contemporary "Little Red-Cap." Change: The Heart of the Story. Falling Action | |
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| As You Write | |
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| Exploration and Discovery | |
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| Ask Yourself | |
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| Ask Readers | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Perspective | |
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| The First Person | |
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| "Showing" in the First Person | |
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| Limitations of the First Person | |
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| Describing the First-Person Narrator | |
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| Self-portraiture: Autobiography or Self-Display? The Unreliable Narrator | |
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| Suspending Disbelief: Narrating in the First Person | |
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| The Third Person | |
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| Third-Person Omniscient | |
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| Third-Person Limited | |
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| The Second Person | |
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| Combining Points of View | |
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| As You Write | |
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| Exploration and Discovery | |
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| Ask Yourself | |
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| Ask Readers | |
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| Wordplay | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Time: Ver | |