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Summary Table of Contents

With help for every would-be novelist, this handbook and anthology is the most widely used guide to the techniques of fiction. The text deals with the elements of fiction one step at a time, and workshop exercises provide practice in each technique.

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