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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- WORKBOOK -- READINGS -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- PART 1 The creative process -- PART 2 Writing fiction -- PART 3 Writing poetry -- PART 4 Life writing -- PART 5 Going public -- PART 1 The creative process -- PART 2 Writing fiction -- PART 3 Writing poetry -- PART 4 Life writing -- PART 5 Going public -- 1 Stimulating creativity and imagination: What really works? -- 2 Keeping a writer's notebook -- 3 Writing what you know -- 4 Writing what you come to know -- 5 Character creation -- 6 Setting 7 Point of view: Trying on voices -- 8 Point of view: Degrees of knowing -- 9 Showing and telling -- 10 Structure -- 11 The story and the reader -- 12 Drafting -- 13 Line -- 14 Voice -- 15 Imagery -- 16 Rhyme -- 17 Form -- 18 Theme -- 19 Starting out -- 20 A preface -- 21 Finding a form -- writing a narrative -- 22 Using memory -- 23 Versions of a life -- 24 Life characters -- 25 Editing: The big changes -- 26 Editing: Later stages -- 27 Exploring outlets -- 28 Presentation and proposal -- 1 from 'Fires', Raymond Carver -- 2 from New Grub Street, George Gissing 3 from A Writer's Notebook, W. Somerset Maugham -- 4 from Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande -- 5 from 'A Real-Life Education', Susan Minot -- 6 from Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee -- 7 'Memory: The true key to real imagining', Lesley Glaister -- 8 from Backtalk: Women writers speak out, Pat Barker -- 9 from Cal, Bernard MacLaverty -- 10 from Biggest Elvis, P.F. Kluge -- 11 from Bodies, Jed Mercurio -- 12 from The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich -- 13 from Age of Iron, J.M. Coetzee -- 14 from Another World, Pat Barker -- 15 'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife', Ernest Hemingway 16 from Rumours of a Hurricane, Tim Lott -- 17 from The Dark, John McGahern -- 18 'Girl', Jamaica Kincaid -- 19 from Purple America, Rick Moody -- 20 from Oxygen, Andrew Miller -- 21 'Going the Last Inch: Some thoughts on showing and telling', Lindsay Clarke -- 22 'The Artist', Patricia Highsmith -- 23 'The Dream', Anon -- 24 'The Black Cap', Katherine Mansfield -- 25 'I could see the smallest things', Raymond Carver -- 26 'The Dying Room', Georgina Hammick -- 27 'Pigeons at Daybreak', Anita Desai -- 28 from 'Writing Short Stories', Flannery O'Connor -- 29 from 'The Handless Maiden', Vicki Feaver 30 from The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo -- 31 from Nothing Not Giving Messages, Edwin Morgan -- 32 from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes -- 33 from The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo -- 34 from Einstein in Love: A scientific romance, Dennis Overbye -- 35 from Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, John Bayley -- 36 from A Drinking Life: A memoir, Pete Hamill -- 37 Five Poems, Elaine Feinstein -- 38 from Giving Up the Ghost: A memoir, Hilary Mantel -- 39 from Where I Was From, Joan Didion -- 40 from The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank 41 from Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes
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