This Year You Write Your Novel (2007) (edit title/settings)

Tallulah A. Scribbles edited the table of contents of This Year You Write Your Novel Wednesday, November 21, 2012.

• Introduction 3
  The General Disciplines That Every Writer Needs 7
  Writing Every Day 7
  Learning How to Write Without Restraint 10
  Avoidance, False Starts, and Dead-End Thinking 13
  A Final Note About Process 14
  The Elements of Fiction 17
  The Narrative Voice 17
  First-Person Narrative 18
  Third-Person Narrative 22
  The Omniscient Narrator 25
  Final Notes on Narrative Voice 29
  Showing and Telling 30
  Sensations 34
  Emotions 35
  The Pedestrian in Fiction 36
  Metaphor and Simile 37
  Final Note on Showing and Telling 40
  Character and Character Development 40
  A Final Note on Character Development 47
  Story 48
  Intuition Versus Structure 51
  Engagement 55
  Plot 56
  Final Thoughts on Plot and Story 61
  The Uses of Poetry in Fiction Writing 62
  Where to Begin 65
  Congratulations 65
  First Words 65
  TheMidlands of the Novel 69
  Research 70
  Rewriting, or Editing 73
  The First Draft 73
  The Second Draft 74
  The Many Drafts That Follow 76
  The Elements of Rewriting 78
  The Nexus of Character, Story, Theme, and Plot 78
  The Devil and the Details 81
  Repetition 81
  Descriptions and Condensation 82
  Dialogue 87
  A Solitary Exercise 92
  Music 93
  When Am I Finished Rewriting? 95
  Miscellany 97
  On Genre 97
  A Note on Aesthetics 98
  Writing Workshops 99
  Literary Organizations, Agents, Publishers...and Getting Published 101
  In Summation 103
  Index 105