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Tables of Contents for Write from the Heart
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the New Edition
xiii
Introduction
1
14
Warm-Ups: Getting Started
15
28
Free Writing
16
2
Directed Free Writing
18
2
Writing about Objects
20
3
Writing about Personal Objects
23
2
Dreams
25
1
I Remember
26
2
I Remember (Directed)
28
1
I Remember (Extended)
29
1
I Remember (Exaggeration)
30
3
Simile and Metaphor
33
2
Lists: Pleasure
35
2
Lists: Forbidden Activities
37
2
Firsts
39
4
TECHNIQUES OF WRITING FICTION
Place: Where It's At
43
14
Be Here Now
45
2
Where Have You Been?
47
2
Using the Senses
49
2
Place: Implied Emotions
51
2
Place: As It Relates to Character
53
2
Where Haven't You Been?
55
2
Action: What's Happening?
57
14
Directions
58
2
Work
60
2
Observing a Scene
62
2
Observing an Animal
64
1
Observing People
65
2
Interaction
67
2
Words of Action
69
2
Character: Who's Who?
71
32
Body Talk
74
2
If She Were . . .
76
2
Lists
78
3
Objects
81
2
Firsts
83
2
I Remember
85
2
Flashbacks
87
2
Dreams
89
2
All Alone
91
3
Pleasures
94
2
Never Say ``Never''
96
2
Rituals: Part I
98
2
Rituals: Part II
100
3
Monologues: Listening In
103
20
Postcards
104
2
What's in a Name?
106
2
Perfect Strangers
108
2
Speaking of Bodies
110
2
I Wish
112
2
First Impressions
114
2
What I Could Never Tell You
116
2
Dear Diary
118
2
Letters
120
3
Dialogue: Let's Talk about It
123
28
``I, Object . . .''
124
2
Eavesdropping
126
1
Kidtalk
127
2
Thought/Action/Speech
129
4
Nuts and Bolts
133
4
Conflict
137
3
Secrets: Part I
140
2
Secrets: Part II
142
3
Time Out
145
3
Trialogues
148
3
Point of View: Whose?
151
12
Third Person Omniscient: The Know-It-All
153
2
First Person: I'm Telling You
155
2
Third Person Subjective: The Alter Ego
157
2
Second Person: You Know
159
2
Alternating Points of View: Taking Turns
161
2
The Elusive Plot
163
4
What's the Story?: Putting It All Together
167
14
Beginnings, Middles, and Endings
168
3
Assignments Galore: Keep Going
171
10
TECHNIQUES OF WRITING POETRY
Forms of Poetry
181
18
Couplets
182
1
Rhyming Couplets
183
1
Acrostic
184
1
Repetition
185
2
Pantoum
187
3
Sestina
190
3
Found Poem
193
2
Alphabet Poem
195
2
List Poem
197
1
Haiku
198
1
Poetry in Motion: More Assignments to Keep That Pen Moving
199
4
After Words: The Pleasures of Publishing
203
32
Appendices
A: Writers' Resources
211
4
Publications for Writers
211
1
Organizations for Writers
212
3
B: Selected Books on Writing
215
4
C: Women's Fiction Anthologies
219
4
D: Women's Poetry Anthologies
223
4
E: Recommended Reading
227
8
Index
235