01. Introduction
02. Getting Started as a Writer
03. Story and Plot
04. Structuring Your Novel Layered Narratives and Other Variations
05. Who Tells the Story Narrative Point of View
06. Point of View Case Studies
07. Bringing Characters to Life Through Detail
08. Creating Compelling Characters
09. Writing Through Roadblocks
10. Crafting Dialogue
11. Revealing the World Through Sensory Imagery
12. Prose Style and Texture
13. Working With Time in Fiction
14. The Door to Your Book The Importance of the First Five Pages
15. Writing the Middle and Ending
16. Revision Seeing Your Work Anew
17. The Novel and the Shifting Sands of Genre
18. Speculative Fiction
19. Speculative Fiction Case Study The Handmaids Tale
20. Research and Historical Accuracy
21. The Writers Path
22. The Business of Being a Writer
23. Parting Words
