Introduction
Copyright and acknowledgments
I. Ruminations
1. Raw Material
2. My Window Is Your Mirror, My Mirror Is Your Wall, My Wall Is Your Window
II. Exercises
3. First Things
4. Attention!
5. A Song to Write To
6. Less Time
7. Points of View
8. Points of View: A Scene
9. A View of a Room
10. Angry Letters
11. Group Writing!
12. 13 Ways of Looking
13. Finding an Image
14. Random Image
15. 5 Senses
16. The Taste of a Thing
17. The Scent of Somewhere
18. Abstract to Concrete to Abstract to Concrete
19. Word Share
20. Reflecting on Words
21. Weird Words
22. Word Substitution
23. Reading the Dictionary
24. Imitation Sentences
25. Sentence Rules
26. 3-Sentence Letters
27. Changing Lines
28. Playing with Paragraphs
29. Playing with Stanzas
30. Reparagraph Yourself
31. Rewrite a Folktale
32. Repetition and Revision
33. Make a Trade
III. Revision Exercises
34. Changing Point of View
35. A Later Start
36. Cut Up
37. How? Why?
38. ReVerb
39. Extreme Surgery
40. Genre Switch
41. Miscellaneous Revision Exercises
IV. Proofreading Guidelines
42. Inclusive Language
43. Diction
44. Authors' Names
45. Proofreading Sentences
46. Paragraph Transitions
47. Punctuating Titles
48. Confusing Words
49. Who vs. That
50. Awkward or Wordy Phrasing
51. The Problem of "So"
52. Single Quotation Marks Do Not Indicate Sarcasm
53. Hyphens vs. Dashes
54. Commas
Appendix: Portfolio Guidelines
Further Reading
These chapters collect various thoughts, ideas, and fragments about writing.
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