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  •  Essays   
    • Author’s Attitudes:
      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

  •  Interviews 
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    • Charles D’Ambrosio
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    • Tom Jenks
    • Fred Leebron
    • David Lynn
    • Michael Malone
    • Lee Martin
    • Rebecca McClanahan
    • Josh Neufeld / Sari Wilson
    • Michael Ray
    • Jim Shepard
    • Rob Spillman
    • Kirby Wilkins
    • Susan Yeagley /
      Kevin Nealon

  • Features
    • Workshop advice
    • Lectures
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    • Study Guide
    • Suggested Reading
    • Stories for Study
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    • 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
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      literary topic.

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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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  • Guardian of Deceit
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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
    • Spirit of Want by William H. Coles
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