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  • Introduction
  • Getting Started as a Writer
  • Story and Plot
  • Structuring Your Novel: Layered Narratives and Other Variations
  • Who Tells the Story: Narrative Point of View
  • Point of View Case Studies
  • Bringing Characters to Life Through Detail
  • Creating Compelling Characters
  • Writing Through Roadblocks
  • Crafting Dialogue
  • Revealing the World Through Sensory Imagery
  • Prose Style and Texture
  • Working With Time in Fiction
  • The Door to Your Book: The Importance of the First Five Pages
  • Writing the Middle and Ending
  • Revision: Seeing Your Work Anew
  • The Novel and the Shifting Sands of Genre
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Speculative Fiction Case Study: The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Research and Historical Accuracy
  • The Writer’s Path
  • The Business of Being a Writer
  • Parting Words