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| Introduction | |
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| The Creative Process | |
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| Stimulating creativity and imagination: What really works? | |
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| Keeping a writer's notebook | |
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| Writing what you know | |
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| Writing what you come to know | |
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| Writing Fiction | |
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| Character creation | |
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| Setting | |
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| Point of view: Trying on voices | |
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| Point of view: Degrees of knowing | |
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| Showing and telling | |
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| Structure | |
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| The story and the reader | |
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| Writing Poetry | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Line | |
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| Voice | |
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| Imagery | |
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| Rhyme | |
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| Form | |
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| Theme | |
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| Life Writing | |
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| Strating out | |
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| A preface | |
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| Finding a form: writing a narrative | |
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| Using memory | |
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| Versions of a life | |
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| Life characters | |
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| Going Public | |
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| Editing: The big changes | |
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| Editing: Later stages | |
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| Exploring outlets | |
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| Presentation and proposal | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Creative Process | |
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| from 'Fires' | |
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| from New Grub Street | |
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| from A Writers' Notebook | |
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| from Becoming a Writer | |
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| from 'A Real-Life Education' | |
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| from Cider with Rosie | |
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| 'Memory: The true key to real imagining' | |
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| from Backtalk: Women writers speak out | |
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| Writing Fiction | |
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| from Cal | |
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| from Biggest Elvis | |
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| from Bodies | |
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| from The Beet Queen | |
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| from Age of Iron | |
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| from Another World | |
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| 'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife' | |
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| from Rumours of a Hurricane | |
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| from The Dark | |
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| 'Girl' | |
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| from Purple America | |
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| from Oxygen | |
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| 'Going the Last Inch: Some thoughts on showing and telling' | |
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| 'The Artist' | |
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| 'The Dream' | |
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| 'The Black Cap' | |
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| 'I could see the smallest things' | |
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| 'The Dying Room' | |
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| 'Pigeons at Daybreak' | |
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| from 'Writing Short Stories' | |
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| Writing Poetry | |
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| from 'The Handless Maiden' | |
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| from The Triggering Town, | |
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| from Nothing Not Giving Messages | |
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| from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind | |
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| from The Triggering Town | |
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| Life Writing | |
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| from Einstein in Love: A scientific romance | |
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| from Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch | |
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| from A Drinking Life: A memoir | |
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| Five Poems | |
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| from Giving up the Ghost: A memoir | |
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| from Where I was From | |
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| from The Diary of a Young Girl | |
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| from Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer | |
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| from In Ethiopia with a Mule | |
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| from 'Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer | |
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| from '"I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka | |
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| from Ake: The Years of Childhood | |
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| from Bad Blood | |
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| Going Public | |
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| from 'Through a Tangle of Branches: Reworking the poem' | |
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| from 'Putting Coyalxauhqui Together: A Creative Process' | |
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| from 'Redrafting and Editing' | |
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| from The Art of Fiction | |
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| from Steering the Craft | |
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| from English Grammar | |
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| from MHRA Style Guide | |
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| from How to Publish Your Poetry | |
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| from Inside Book Publishing | |
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