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Prologue: Concerning Writing-Exercises and Ways to Approach Them | |
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Writing Prompts and Activities | |
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Riding the Blue LineReading | |
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Getting Started | |
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Of Reading | |
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Fitting Yourself into the Conversation of Writing You Love | |
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Reading Yourself | |
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And How About Your Reading Habits? | |
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Your Own Canon | |
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Reading Your Times: When You Came to Be | |
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Reading Home: Organizing and Developing Memories | |
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Correspondences: Imitation and Inspiration | |
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Collecting Epigraphs for a Textual Mosaic | |
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Writing Provocations: Responding to Other Writing | |
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Eight Steps for Inhabiting and Transforming a Poem | |
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Travels With the Essay | |
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Reading and Writing Out of Other Art | |
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History as a Collaboration of Fact and Imagination | |
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Shadows, Doubles, and Others | |
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Can You Name That Epiphany? The Narrow Road to Mixing Genres | |
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Reading Form as a Product of Perspective | |
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Reading and Writing in the Workshop | |
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Responding to, Evaluating, and Grading Alternative Style | |
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Riding the Green LineInvention | |
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Getting Started | |
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Dislodge the Icon of "The Writer" | |
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Narrative Anxiety Cure-All (Not Sold In Stores) | |
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Coming to Our Overlooked Senses | |
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Taste: Writing About Food and Family | |
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Sounds and Smells | |
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Places and Things | |
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The Familiar Place as Frontier: Seeing the Rare in the Ordinary | |
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Beginning with Nostalgia: Lost Childhood Places | |
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Places, Memories, Desires | |
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The Text(ure) of Public Places | |
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Writing About or With Objects | |
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Writing from Expertise, Not Just From Experience | |
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Language and Form | |
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The Power of Names | |
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Writing From Your Name: An Introductory Poem (an Acrostic) | |
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First Words of Stories: This Sentence, These Words | |
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The Perfect Grammar of Form: Finding Your Own Ideal Form | |
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Nonsense and Sound Poems: Demystifying Formal Verse | |
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Burrowing: Writing That Springs from Language Itself | |
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There's Something About a Sonnet: Easing Into a 10 X 14 Poem | |
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Piecemeal Fictions | |
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Comparison vs. Contiguity: Using Metaphor and Metonymy | |
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Working With Metaphor | |
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Premises, Assumptions, Hypothetical Situations | |
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Y and X-land: Dropping Characters into Places They Don't Belong | |
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Under What Circumstances Would Someone...? | |
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Against the Grain: Ignoring Conventional Wisdom | |
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Against the Grain, Part Two | |
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The Nonexistent Relative: Viewing "The Facts as Malleable | |
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Ambiguity Is Certainly Useful | |
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Drama = Conflict = Power | |
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Story Spinning: 51 Prompts for Story Ideas | |
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Memory | |
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Listing and Memory | |
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The Most Important Spectator in Your Writing Life-You | |
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How New Writing Grows Out of Old | |
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Riding the Orange LineDevelopment and Improvisation | |
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Time | |
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Playing With Time: Some Basic Moves | |
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Telling Time 1: Order | |
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Telling Time 2: Frequency | |
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Telling Time 3: Duration | |
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Telling Time: Down and Dirty | |
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Developing Characters, Points of View, and Other Elements | |
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Character Witness: 20 Questions | |
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Building Character | |
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Pardon Me, Your Nemesis Is Showing | |
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Turning the Lens: Framing Narrative Perspective | |
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Narrative "Voice and Listeners Within Stories | |
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Using Delay as an Organizing Principle | |
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Writing What Cannot Be Filmed | |
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A Certain Conventional Element | |
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Deconstructing and<$$$> | |