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| Preface to the Instructor | |
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| Invitation to the Writer | |
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| You ... | |
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| ... and writing ... | |
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| ... and reading ... | |
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| ... and this book ... | |
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| ... and your journal ... | |
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| ... and your workshop | |
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| The Elements of Craft | |
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| Image | |
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| Image and Imagination | |
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| Concrete, Significant Details | |
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| Metaphor and Simile | |
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| Essays | |
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| "The Giant Water Bug" | |
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| From A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "Sister Godzilla" | |
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| "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" | |
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| Poems | |
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| "The Hawk in the Rain" | |
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| "The Haunted Ruin" | |
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| "Facing It" | |
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| "The Surface" | |
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| "How to Use This Body" | |
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| "Why Regret?" | |
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| Drama | |
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| Act Without Words | |
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| The Drummer | |
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| Voice | |
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| Your Voice | |
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| Persona | |
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| Character Voice | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Essays | |
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| From Angela's Ashes | |
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| "Invitation to a Transformation" | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "In the Kindergarten" | |
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| "The School" | |
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| Poems | |
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| "Order in the Streets" | |
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| "Black Hair" | |
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| "Hawk Roosting" | |
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| "Kong Looks Back on His Tryout with the Bears" | |
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| "Father" | |
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| "A Mown Lawn" | |
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| "The Language of Bees" | |
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| Drama | |
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| from Talking With ... Handler and French Fries | |
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| Character | |
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| As Desire | |
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| As Image | |
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| As Voice | |
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| As Action | |
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| As Thought | |
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| As Presented by the Author | |
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| As Conflict | |
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| Essay | |
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| "The Inheritance of Tools" | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "Ysrael" | |
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| Poems | |
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| "I Knew a Woman" | |
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| "Stonecarver" | |
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| "My Brother's Work" | |
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| "Old man Hansen comes in at ten to" | |
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| "One Flesh" | |
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| "Old Men Playing Basketball" | |
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| "Portrait of a Writer" | |
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| Drama | |
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| Brother | |
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| Setting | |
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| As the World | |
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| As a Camera | |
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| As Mood and Symbol | |
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| As Action | |
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| Essays | |
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| "At the Dam" | |
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| "Landscape and Narrative" | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "Snow" | |
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| Poems | |
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| "Deer Ghost" | |
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| "Earthmoving Malediction" | |
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| "Vacation" | |
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| "Nude Interrogation" | |
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| "Advice From the Extractor" | |
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| Drama | |
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| Dutchman | |
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| Story | |
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| As a Journey | |
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| As a Power Struggle | |
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| As Connection/Disconnection | |
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| Essay | |
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| "Red Sky in the Morning" | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "Missing" | |
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| "Worry" | |
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| Poems | |
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| "A Story About the Body" | |
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| "Digging for China" | |
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| "Short Story" | |
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| "Woodchucks" | |
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| "The Hammock" | |
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| "Vita Nova" | |
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| Drama | |
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| The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry | |
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| Development and Revision | |
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| Developing a Draft | |
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| Revision and Editing | |
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| The Workshop | |
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| Examples | |
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| First and final drafts of "One Art" | |
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| "The Opening of Time Lapse: a revision narrative" | |
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| Developing Scene | |
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| Undrafting | |
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| Line Editing | |
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| The Genres | |
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| Essay | |
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| Kinds of Essay | |
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| Essay Techniques | |
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| Fact and Truth | |
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| Readings | |
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| "The Female Body" | |
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| "Those Words That Echo ... Echo ... Echo Through Life" | |
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| "The Knife" | |
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| "Belongings" | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Story and Plot | |
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| Scene and Summary | |
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| Backstory and Flashback | |
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| Text and Subtext | |
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| Readings | |
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| "The Diamond Mine" | |
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| "Your Fears Are Justified" | |
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| "Mockingbird" | |
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| "It's Water, It's Not Going to Kill You" | |
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| "Tomorrow's Bird" | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Free Verse and Formal Verse | |
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| Imagery, Connotation, and Metaphor | |
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| Density and Intensity | |
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| Prosody, Rhythm, and Rhyme | |
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| Readings | |
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| "Stillborn" | |
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| "The Grammar Lesson" | |
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| "The Poet, Trying to Surprise God" | |
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| "Like This Together" | |
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| "Romantic, at Horseshoe Key" | |
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| "Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In" | |
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| "Prose Poem" | |
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| "Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers" | |
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| "Repetition" | |
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| "Ghazal" | |
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| "The Language of the Brag" | |
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| "Dream Song 14" | |
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| "My Uncle Guillermo Speaks at His Own Funeral" | |
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| Drama | |
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| The Difference Between Drama and Fiction | |
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| Sight: Sets, Action, Costumes, Props | |
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| Sound: Nonverbal and Verbal | |
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| Some Notes on Screenwriting | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Road to Ruin | |
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| Duet for Bear and Dog | |
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| Gas | |
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| Eukiah | |
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| The Philadelphia | |
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| Collaborative Exercises | |
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| Formats | |
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| Prose fiction and nonfiction | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Drama | |
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| A Basic Prosody | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |