From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: The unsayable ecstasies
Don't write what you know
The terror of the white page
Out from the dust : creating characters
Fuhgheddaboudit : writing dialogue
Who what where when how and why
What matters : language and plot
Punctuation : it's not just a throwaway thing (comma)
Research : Google isn't deep enough
No rust on your sentences please
There are no literary Olympics
How old is the young writer?
Then again, don't be too nice (in your fiction anyway)
What if I don't get an agent?
Bringing (your own) fresh eyes to your stories
Allow the reader's intelligence
If you're done, you've only just begun
Blurbs (or the art of literary porn)
Should I read while I'm writing?
The dark dogs of the mind
Be exhausted when you finish
Letter to a young writer, redux.
