A Passion for Narrative : A Guide for Writing Fiction

The Natural Storyteller: An Introduction 9(23) Getting Started: Finding Stories Meant for You 23(22) One Good Sentence After Another 45(26) Setting: ``A Plausible Abode'' 71(28) Character: ``Precious Particles'' 99(26) Plot: A Causal Chain 125(26) Structure: The Architecture of Fiction 151(30) Point of View and Voice: ``Where I'm Calling From'' 181(24) Making Connections: Metaphors, Symbols, and Allusions 205(28) Revising 233(22) Breathing from Some Other World: The Story of a Story 255(16) A Postscript: And Now What? 271(12) Afterword to the 2001 Edition 283(20) Brief Notes on Fiction Writers Quoted or Discussed 303(5) Sources of Quotations 308(8) Acknowledgements 316