PART I. WRITERS AND THEIR WORDS

1. Thinking about Writers and Writing

Exploring Your Own Beliefs • Exploring Your Own Feelings • Completing a Writing Process Self-Audit • Who Writes: What Is Good Writing? • Who Writes: The Scene of Writing

2. Discovering a Writer’s Moves

Creative Writers: Composing Stories and Writing Rules • Research and Writers’ Knowledge • Discovering a Writer’s Moves

PART II. THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE WRITING

3. Uncovering a Draft

Exploring Language: Clichés and Metaphors • Exploring the Material World: Objects and the Senses • Exploring Your Personal World: Autobiography and Personal Archeology • Transforming Familiar Forms: Lists, Letters, Advice, Directions, and Found Pieces

4. From Private to Public: Journals and Workshops

Saving and Sharing: Your Writing Journal or Notebook • Sharing within a Writing Workshop • Workshop Formats

5. The Art of Exploration

Writing Art about Art • Writing with/through Influences • Writing with Others: Collaborative Composing • Experimentation: Writing against the Rules

6. Listening to Others

The Student and Teacher Writing Conference • Don’t Forget the Writing Center • Sharing with Friends and Family • Taking Control of Response Situations • Informal Writing Groups • Reading Writers and Writing Readings

7. Revision and Your Writing

Revision Is a Recursive Process • Early Revision • Taking Control: Asking for Response • The Interim Period: Between Early and Late Revision Workshops • Revising Late Drafts • Revision as Productive Risk Taking • The Pleasures of Style

8. Evaluating Your Writing

The Writing Classroom and Evaluation • Understanding Teacher Evaluation • Looking for Wider Evaluation: Publication

PART III. THE RESULTS OF WRITING

9. Genre and Writing

Looking at All Writing • Looking at Creative Writing • Writing Poetry • Writing Fiction • Writer’s Definitions • Basic Terms • Comparisons and Contrasts • Student Fiction: A Sampler • Writing Drama

10. Other Forms

Sketches and Prose Poems • Science Fiction • Children’s Fiction • Nonfiction: Journalists’ Columns and Family Stories

Appendix A. Resources for Writers

Writing Directories, Organizations, Newsletters • Writers’ Retreats and Fellowships

Appendix B. Response Questions for Writing