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  •  Essays   
    • Author’s Attitudes:
      Fine-Tuning
    • Character
    • Characterization
    • Conflict
    • Creating Story World (setting) in Literary Fiction
    • 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
    • Perception in literary fiction: a challenge for better 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
    • Victims as Characters in Literary Fiction
    • What Exactly Is a Character-Based Plot?
    • Writing in Scene: A Staple for Reader Engagement in Fiction

  •  Interviews 
    • Lee Abbott
    • Steve Almond
    • John Biguenet
    • Robert Olen Butler
    • Ron Carlson
    • Lan Samantha Chang
    • Charles D’Ambrosio
    • Peter Ho Davies
    • Jonathan Dee
    • Julia Glass
    • 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
    • - Narration
    • - Humor
    • Study Guide
    • Suggested Reading
    • Stories for Study
    • Books on Writing
    • Quizzes
    • Books for purchase
    • Comments
  • Literary Fiction
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    • Participate in a literary workshop free.
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      Critiques on submitted work.
  • Opinion
    Blog
    • Recent posts:
    • Beauty and the Building of Character in a Literary Story
    • An Empathetic Fictional Character is Multidimensional
    • Is it, or is it not, irony?
    • A Secret of Great Literary Fiction Stories as Art
    • Career planning for aspiring, literary-fiction-story writers.
    • Improve storytelling by flexiblity in writing style
    • More...

  • The Fiction Well
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  • Original Stories
    • Short Stories
    • Nemesis
    • Gatemouth Willie Brown on Guitar
    • The Wreck of the Amtrak’s Silver Service
    • The Indelible Myth
    • Inside the Matryoshka
    • Speaking of the Dead
    • 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
  • Creating Literary Stories: A Fiction Writer’s Guide
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  • McDowell
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  • Guardian of Deceit
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  • The Surgeon's Wife
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  • The Spirit
      of Want
    • Spirit of Want by William H. Coles
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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
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