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| Whatever Works: The Writing Process | |
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| Get Started | |
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| Keep Going | |
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| A Word About Theme | |
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| Shitty First Drafts, Anne Lamott | |
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| From The Writing Life, Annie Dillard | |
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| The Tower and The Net: Story Form and Structure | |
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| Conflict, Crisis, and Resolution | |
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| Connection and Disconnection | |
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| Story Form as a Check Mark | |
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| Story and Plot | |
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| The Short Story and the Novel | |
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| The Use of Force, William Carlos Williams | |
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| How Far She Went, Mary Hood | |
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| Seeing Is Believing: Showing and Telling | |
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| Significant Detail | |
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| Filtering | |
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| The Active Voice | |
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| Prose Rhythm | |
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| Mechanics | |
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| The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien | |
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| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates | |
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| Book People: Characterization, Part I | |
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| Credibility | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Complexity | |
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| The Indirect Method of Character Presentation: Authorial Interpretation | |
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| The Direct Methods of Character Presentation | |
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| The Enormous Radio, John Cheever | |
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| Yours, Mary Robinson | |
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| The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore, Alexie Sherman | |
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| The Flesh Made Word: Characterization, Part II | |
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| The Direct Methods of Character Presentation (Continued) | |
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| Conflict Between Methods of Presentation | |
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| Creating a Group or Crowd | |
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| Character: A Summary | |
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| Girls at War, Chinua Achebe | |
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| Saint Marie, Louise Erdrich | |
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| Long Ago and Far Away: Fictional Place and Time | |
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| Setting and Atmosphere | |
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| Some Aspects of Narrative Time | |
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| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
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| Bullet in the Brain, Tobias Wolff | |
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| Call Me Ishmael: Point of View, Part I | |
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| Who Speaks? | |
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| To Whom? | |
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| In What Form? | |
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| Girl, Jamaica Kincaid | |
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| Hips, Sandra Cisneros | |
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| Royal Beatings, Alice Munro | |
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| Assorted Liars: Point of View, Part II | |
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| At What Distance? | |
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| With What Limitations? | |
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| Gryphon, Charles Baxter | |
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| Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot, Robert Olen Butler | |
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| Is and Is Not: Comparison | |
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| Types of Metaphor and Simile | |
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| Metaphoric Faults to Avoid | |
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| Allegory | |
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| Symbol | |
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| The Objective Correlative | |
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| San, Lan Samantha Chang | |
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| The Falling Girl, Dino Buzzati | |
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| Menagerie, Charles Johnson | |
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| I Gotta Use Words When I Talk To You: Theme | |
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| Idea and Morality in Theme | |
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| How Fictional Elements Contribute to Theme | |
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| A Man Told Me the Story of His Life, Grace Paley | |
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| Developing Theme as You Write | |
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| Ralph the Duck, Frederick Busch | |
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| Ad Infinitum: A Short Story, John Barth | |
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| Play It Again, Sam: Revision | |
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| Worry It and Walk Away | |
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| Criticism | |
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| Revision questions | |
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| An Example of the Revision Process | |
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| Wanting to Fly, Stephen Dunning | |
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| The Bath, Raymond Carver | |
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| A Small, Good Thing, Raymond Carver | |
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| Kinds of Fiction | |
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| Suggestions For Further Reading | |
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| Index | |