(Please note: this is a work-in-progress. Anything without a hyperlink is yet to be published, and more will come soon.)
Book One: On Beauty and Fiction
Ch. 5: The Heart
Book Two: Story Fundamentals
Ch. 1: How Fiction Works
Ch. 2: Plot and Character Arcs
Ch. 3: Writing Characters
Ch. 4: Drama, Tragedy, and Comedy
Ch. 5: Beats, Scenes, Sequences, Story
Ch. 6: Great Sentences, Ordered Paragraphs
Ch. 7: Word Choice
Ch. 8: Theme, Symbol, and Meaning
Ch. 9: Developing Your Style
Ch. 10: Strangeness, Prophecy, Mystery, and Madness
Ch. 11: Practice vs. Play, the 3 Levels of Artistry
Book Three: The Writing Vocation
Ch. 1: Heeding the Call
Ch. 2: What is Inspiration?
Ch. 3: How I Wrote “The Tower”
Ch. 4: Solitude and Community
Ch. 5: The Good Life
Ch. 6: How to Read like a Writer; What a Writer Becomes; Reading, Writing, and Noticing
Book Four: Looking at Great Stories
Ch. 1: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Middlemarch (Novels with “Full stories”)
Ch. 2: My Antonia (“Minimalist” or “Deconstructive” Novels)
Ch. 3: Short stories
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