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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