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| Introduction | |
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| The Craft | |
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| The Philosophy of Plot | |
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| The Plot Thickens | |
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| What I Stole From the Movies | |
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| The Fifty-Page Dash | |
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| Find Your Novel's Missing Links | |
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| Don't Just Conclude the Plot ... Nail the Landing | |
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| Who's Afraid of Point of View? | |
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| Creating Four-Dimensional Characters | |
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| Seven Tools for Talk | |
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| The Art | |
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| Mastering Fiction's First Rule | |
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| What Your Story Says | |
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| Killer-Diller Details Bring Fiction to Life | |
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| Sense and Sensuality | |
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| Why True-Life Stories Often Don't Make Good Fiction | |
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| Fiction's Connecting Link: Emotion | |
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| Location, Location, Location: Depicting Character Through Place | |
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| The More and Less of Writing Humorous Fiction | |
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| The Process | |
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| How to Start | |
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| The Use of the Journal in Writing a Novel | |
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| Pump Up Your Creativity | |
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| Breaking Through Writer's Block | |
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| "Murder Your Darlings" | |
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| A Four-Step Plan for Revision | |
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| Twenty-One Tweaks to a Better Tale | |
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| What to Do About Criticism | |
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| The Genres | |
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| Literary or Commercial? | |
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| Writing the World of Fantasy | |
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| Once Upon a Character | |
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| Innovation in Horror | |
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| The Who in Whodunits | |
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| Writing Suspense That'll "Kill" Your Readers | |
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| Keeping Them in Suspense | |
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| Inside Christian Fiction | |
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| The Basics of Romance | |
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| The Marketplace | |
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| The Search Begins: Finding Agents and Editors | |
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| To Fee or Not to Fee | |
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| "Study the Market!" | |
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| Commanding Book Proposals: The Rejection Slip's Greatest Enemy | |
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| Producing a Knockout Novel Synopsis | |
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| Marketing Your Novel: The Ten Commandments | |
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| Understanding the Digital Revolution in Five Easy Steps | |
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| The Interviews | |
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| Margaret Atwood: "As a Writer, You Must Do What Beckons to You" | |
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| Seven Questions with Maeve Binchy | |
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| A Conversation With Tom Clancy | |
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| Interview With Elizabeth George | |
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| Eight Questions With David Guterson | |
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| Gish Jen: "You Never Get Bored" | |
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| Jerry B. Jenkins: Left Behind Series | |
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| A Conversation With Tony Hillerman | |
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| Terry McMillan: "Everything I Write Is About Empowerment" | |
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| Find Identity With Joyce Carol Oates | |
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| Finding Creativity With James Patterson | |
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| A Journey With Anne Rivers Siddons | |
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| Updike: Still More to Say | |
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| "Whatever Works, Works": Kurt Vonnegut on Flouting the Rules of Fiction | |
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