Table Of ContentPreface Chapter 1 Invitation to the Writer You ... ... and writing ... ... and reading ... ... and this book ... ... and your journal ... Journal Excerpts Ayelet Waldman Billy Collins Cris Mazza Patricia Henley Philip Graham A word about your workshop ... Part IThe Elements of Craft Chapter 2 Image Image and Imagination Concrete, Significant Details Figures of Speech Readings Creative Nonfiction Annie Dillard from Heaven and Earth in Jest David Sedaris Standing By Fiction Tobias Wolff Bullet in the Brain Jamaica Kincaid Girl Poems Roger Bonair-Agard American History looks for light--a prayer for the survival of Barack Obama Billy Collins Snow Day Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It Drama Jane Martin French Fries Chapter 3 Voice Your Voice Persona Irony Character Voice Point of View Readings Creative Nonfiction Alice Walker Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self Warren J. Bowe Guns for Teachers Fiction George Saunders Victory Lap Jorge Luis Borges The Book of Sand Poems Alicia Ostriker Wrong About the Horse Barbara Hamby Ode to American English Adam J. Ruben The Grad Student Rap Drama Chuck O''Connor High Hard Ones a Play Chapter 4 Character Character as Desire Character as Image Character as Voice Character as Action Character as Thought Character as Presented by the Author Character as Conflict Stock and Flat Characters Readings Creative Nonfiction Aleksandar Hemon The Book of My Life Benjamin Percy Me vs. Animals Fiction Richard Bausch Tandolfo the Great Poems Theodore Roethke I Knew a Woman Carole Simmons Oles Stonecarver Elizabeth Jennings One Flesh Kaylin Haught God Says Yes to Me Drama Molly Campbell Telephone Bob Chapter 5 Setting Setting as the World Setting as a Camera Setting as Mood and Symbol Setting as Action Readings Creative Nonfiction Joan Didion At the Dam Fiction Donald Barthelme The School Angela Carter The Werewolf Poems Sherman Alexie At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School John Freeman Beirut Philip Appleman Nobody Dies in the Spring &nbs
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