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    Fine-Tuning
  • Character
  • Characterization
  • Conflict
  • Credibility
  • Desire and Motivation
  • Dialogue
  • Drama
  • Emotional Complexity
  • 1st person POV
  • How Stories Go Wrong
  • Humor and Fiction
  • Improving Dialogue
  • Information and Literary Story Structure
  • Literary Fictional Story
  • Momentum
  • Narration
  • Preparing to Write the Great Literary Story
  • Strong Voice and Attention to Time
  • The Anatomy of a Wannabe Literary Fiction Writer
  • Top Story/Bottom Story
  • What Exactly Is a Character-Based Plot?
  • Writing in Scene: A Staple for Reader Engagement in Fiction
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  Interviews
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  • Steve Almond
  • John Biguenet
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  • Fred Leebron
  • David Lynn
  • Michael Malone
  • Lee Martin
  • Rebecca McClanahan
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  • Michael Ray
  • Jim Shepard
  • Rob Spillman
  
  
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  • Susan Yeagley /
    Kevin Nealon
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• Literary Fiction
  Workshop
  • Participate in a literary workshop free.
    Assignments posted.
    Critiques on submitted work.
• Opinion
  Blog
  • Recent posts:
  • Story Beginnings (13): What Engages You?
  • Becoming an Author
  • Why Should a Serious Fiction Writer Use Second Person Narration?
  • Memoir Is Not Fiction
  • Workshops on the Novel: Rules for Teachers, Guidelines for Students
  • Authors Competing with Story for Reader's Attention in Literary Fiction
  • More...
• The Fiction Well
  • Tells where to
    learn about any
    literary topic.
    
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  Tutorial
  • One-on-one teaching
    through individualized
    writing assignments
    and comments.
    
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• Writer’s Manual
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• Original Stories
  • Short Stories
  • The Gift
  • Suchin’s Escape
  • The Stonecutter
  • Facing Grace with Gloria
  • Homunculus
  • The Perennial Student
  • The Activist
  • Curse of a Lonely Heart
  • The Miracle of Madame Villard
  • On the Road to Yazoo City
  • Captain Withers’s Wife
  • The Thirteen Nude of Ernest Goings
  • Reddog
  • Short Shorts
  • Clouds
  • Dilemma
  • Crossing Over
  • The Bear
  • Lost Papers
• The Surgeon's Wife
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• The Necklace
  and Other Stories
  • The Necklace
  • The Golden Flute
  • The Amish Girl
  • Dr. Greiner's Day in Court
  • The Cart Boy
  • Big Gene
  • Grief
  • The War of the Flies
  • Father Ryan
  • Sister Carrie
• The Spirit
    of Want
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• Guardian of Deceit
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