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| Writing Down Your Stories | |
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| That Which Is Most Personal Is Most Common | |
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| Hot Heart, Cold Eye: The Inconvenient Importance of Craft | |
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| The Personal Essay | |
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| Elements of the Successful Essay | |
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| Keep It Small | |
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| What Question Drives Your Essay? | |
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| Write About The Moment Something Changed | |
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| Build The Essay | |
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| Outline The Essay | |
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| Write The Epiphany | |
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| What's Your Angle? | |
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| You Have A Subject-But Do You Have An Angle? | |
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| How To Find An Angle | |
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| How To Use Setup | |
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| Techniques and Practices for Essay and Memoir | |
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| Tone: How to Assert a Specific Temperament | |
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| Are You Funny? | |
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| Be A Screwup | |
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| Watch Your Tone | |
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| Finding Your Voice: Do You Sound Like You? | |
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| Image: The Luminosity of the Particular | |
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| Use Your Senses | |
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| Build Images With Specific Details | |
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| The Dread Necessity Of Inner Emotional Landscape | |
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| How to Trick Yourself into Writing | |
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| Apply Part A (Butt) To Part B (Chair) | |
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| Write Every Day | |
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| No Time To Write? Consider Yourself Lucky | |
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| Lower Your Standards | |
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| It Takes a Village: Working with Other Writers | |
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| How Writing Partners Make You Write | |
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| How The Writing Partnership Works | |
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| Take Classes | |
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| Join A Group | |
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| Feedback: How To Give It | |
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| Feedback: How To Take It | |
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| Revising Rewriting Your Work | |
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| Step Back From Your Draft | |
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| Fix The Beginning | |
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| Fix The Ending | |
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| Fix In General | |
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| Fix The Sentences | |
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| How Do You Know When You're Finished? | |
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| The Memoir | |
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| Planning Your Memoir | |
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| Will Your Idea Work? | |
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| Use Reflective Voice | |
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| Do Your Reasearch | |
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| Organize Your Material | |
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| Write A Discovery Draft | |
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| What Goes In, What Doesn't | |
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| Identify Your Desire Line And Obstacles | |
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| Determine The Pivotal Events | |
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| Draw The Arc | |
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| Strengthen The Arc | |
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| Why It's Called Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Hire An Editor | |
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| Consider A Nonconventional Structure | |
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| How to Write Narration and Scene | |
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| The Uses Of Narration | |
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| Write Compelling Scenes | |
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| Bring Your Mom To Life | |
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| Use Dialogue | |
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| Getting Published | |
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| Words for Money: Selling Your Essays | |
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| Where To Find A Market | |
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| How To Find Hooks | |
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| A Word About Rights | |
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| How To Submit | |
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| How To Handle Rejections | |
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| How To Handle Acceptances | |
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| Get Your Work Out There | |
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| Publishing Your Memoir | |
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| Find An Agent | |
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| Prepare To Obsess Over The Query Letter | |
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| Put Together The Proposal | |
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| Your New Job: Promoting Your Book | |
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| Should You Self-Publish? | |
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| What If Mom Reads It? | |
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| Consider Your Options | |
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| What You Get When You Write from Life | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Reading List | |
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| Useful Texts | |
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| Writing Exercises | |
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| Tricks Of The (Computer) Trade | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |