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Tables of Contents for Writing Down the Bones
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
1
4
Beginner's Mind, Pen and Paper
5
3
First Thoughts
8
3
Writing as a Practice
11
3
Composting
14
2
Artistic Stability
16
3
A List of Topics for Writing Practice
19
4
Fighting Tofu
23
3
Trouble with the Editor
26
1
Elkton, Minnesota: Whatever's in Front of You
27
3
Tap the Water Table
30
2
We Are Not the Poem
32
2
Man Eats Car
34
2
Writing Is Not a McDonald's Hamburger
36
2
Obsessions
38
3
Original Detail
41
2
The Power of Detail
43
2
Baking a Cake
45
3
Living Twice
48
2
Writers Have Good Figures
50
2
Listening
52
3
Don't Marry the Fly
55
2
Don't Use Writing to Get Love
57
2
What Are Your Deep Dreams?
59
2
Syntax
61
5
Nervously Sipping Wine
66
2
Don't Tell, but Show
68
2
Be Specific
70
2
Big Concentration
72
2
The Ordinary and Extraordinary
74
3
Talk Is the Exercise Ground
77
2
Writing Is a Communal Act
79
3
One Plus One Equals a Mercedes-Benz
82
1
Be an Animal
83
2
Make Statements and Answer Questions
85
2
The Action of a Sentence
87
3
Writing in Restaurants
90
5
The Writing Studio
95
2
A Big Topic: Eroticism
97
2
A Tourist in Your Own Town
99
2
Write Anyplace
101
2
Go Further
103
2
Engendering Compassion
105
3
Doubt Is Torture
108
2
A Little Sweet
110
1
A New Moment
111
2
Why Do I Write?
113
4
Every Monday
117
2
More About Mondays
119
2
Spontaneous Writing Booths
121
3
A Sensation of Space
124
3
A Large Field to Wander In
127
4
The Goody-Two-Shoes Nature
131
4
No Hindrances
135
3
A Meal You Love
138
2
Use Loneliness
140
2
Blue Lipstick and a Cigarette Hanging Out Your Mouth
142
1
Going Home
143
4
A Story Circle
147
3
Writing Marathons
150
4
Claim Your Writing
154
3
Trust Yourself
157
2
The Samurai
159
3
Rereading and Rewriting
162
5
I Don't Want to Die
167
2
Epilogue
169
2
Notes
171