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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Writing from Within": The Basic Approach and Techniques | |
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| Acquiring the Basic Techniques of "Writing from Within" | |
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| Overcoming Fear | |
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| "My Friend Jake" | |
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| Finding Your Earliest Memories | |
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| "Willem" (First Draft & Rewrite) | |
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| Uncovering Your Most Vivid Childhood Memories | |
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| "Life on the Railroad" (Excerpt) | |
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| "Jefferson Barracks, Missouri" (Excerpt) | |
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| Uncovering Your Most Vivid Teenage Memories | |
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| "Dad's Death" (First Draft & Rewrite) | |
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| Writing About the Inner You | |
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| Cracking Open the Door to Your Past | |
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| "The Goose Story" (First Draft & Rewrite) | |
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| "Cricket" (Excerpt) | |
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| Developing a Writing Strategy and Choosing Writing Exercises | |
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| Expanding the Climax of the Story | |
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| "My Mother's Death" (Excerpt 1: First Draft & Rewrite); (Excerpt 2: First Draft & Rewrite) | |
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| From Rewrite to Insight: Uncovering Hidden Memories | |
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| "Leaving the Farm" (First Draft & Rewrites) | |
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| Amplifying the Basic Steps in "Writing from Within": Narrative, Dialogue, and Inner Thoughts and Feelings | |
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| Expanding Narrative | |
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| "Cricket" (Excerpt) | |
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| Improvising Dialogue | |
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| "The Turkish Ambassador" | |
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| Imagining Inner Thoughts and Feelings | |
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| "The Garage" (Excerpt) | |
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| Using the Basic Techniques with Challenging Subject Matter | |
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| "Right You Axe If You Think You Are": Viewing Life from Different Perspectives | |
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| "The Undecided Story" | |
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| "The Undecided Story" | |
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| Confronting Traumatic Situations | |
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| "Double Trouble" (Excerpt) | |
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| Writing Family Histories | |
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| Writing Family Histories: Narrating Another Person's Story | |
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| "Family History" | |
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| Writing Family Histories from Recorded Narratives | |
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| "Pool Hall" (Excerpt) | |
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| "How I Became a Rebel" | |
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| Researching the Past | |
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| Expanding and Managing Your Creativity | |
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| Embracing Your Self-Critic | |
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| "Them Boots Is Made for Walkin'" | |
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| Handling Creativity and Depression | |
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| Experiencing the Story as a Mirror of the Self | |
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| "Anya" | |
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| "The Beach" (Excerpt) | |
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| "The Beach: My Self in the Mirror" | |
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| "Writing from Within": Advanced Work | |
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| Advanced Perspectives in Writing Creatively | |
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| Using Short Sentences, the "Objective Correlative," and the "Hitchcockian Recap" | |
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| "Smoke Rings" (Excerpt) | |
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| "The Board" (Excerpt) | |
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| Developing Character Qualities, Backstory, and Denouement | |
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| "In the Beginning…" | |
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| "Smoke Rings" (Excerpt) | |
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| Creating Visual Motifs, Minor Characters, and Form | |
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| Employing the Principles of Art and Subtext | |
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| "Smoke Rings" (Excerpt) | |
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| Separating the Writer's Voice from the Central Character's Voice | |
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| Exploring Character Through Rewriting | |
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| Revealing Character: Rewriting Inner Thoughts and Feelings | |
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| "A Normal Life?" (Excerpt: First Draft & Rewrite) | |
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| Unraveling Character: Rewriting Action and Details | |
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| "Front Page to Hard Cover" (Excerpt) | |
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| Leaping into Longer Work | |
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| Turning Life Stories into Novels | |
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| "The Sweet Life" | |
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| Dangling in the Adios (Chapter One) | |
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| "Ma�riana Is Good Enough for Me" | |
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| New Shooter (Chapter One) | |
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| Writing Creative Stories | |
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| "Molloko, the California Condor" (Excerpt) | |
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| Creating Screenplays from Short Stories: Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" | |
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| "Front Page to Hard Cover": Bill Rempel's At the Devil's Table | |
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| For the Future | |
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| "Writing from Within" and Schools | |
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| "Writing from Within" and the Human Potential Movement | |
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| "Defining My Turning Point Behavior and Finding Its Origins" | |
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| "Winning" | |
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| The Benefits of "Writing from Within" | |
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| "An Evening in Paris" | |
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| "I Read My Story to Lou" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Stories | |
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| "The Overhead Bridge" | |
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| "Leaving the Plantation" | |
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| "Tank Top" | |
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| "The Garage" | |
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| "Smoke Rings" | |
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| "A Normal Life?" | |
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| "Blind Lemon Jefferson Sings the Blues" | |
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| "Epiphany" | |
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| "My Mother's Death" | |
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| "Double Trouble" | |
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| "The Beach" | |
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| "Christmas 1944" | |
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| "Blackcat-Whitecat" | |
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| Appendix: Creating a Supportive, Noncritical, yet Insightful Writing Group | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Other Books by Bernard Selling | |