Starting the writing process
Building fictional worlds through evocation
How characters are different from people
Fictional characters, imagined and observed
Call me Ishmael: introducing a character
Characters: round and flat, major and minor
Mechanics of writing dialogue
Integrating dialogue into a narrative
And then: turning a story into a plot
Plotting with the Freytag pyramid
Adding complexity to plots
Structuring a narrative without a plot
In the beginning: how to start a plot
Happily ever after: how to end a plot
Seeing through other eye: point of view
I, me, mine: first-person point of view
He, she, it: third person point of view
Evoking setting and place in fiction
Pacing in scenes and narratives
Approaches to researching fiction
Making a life as a fiction writer.
