Table of Contents for Novel Ideas : Contemporary Authors Share the Creavtive Process

Introduction

iv

The Book in the Mind, the Book on the Page

1

(6)

The Elements of Fiction

7

(25)

Seeing It Through

32

(7)

Revision

39

(10)

The Interviews

49

(239)

Dorothy Allison

51

(15)

A. Manette Ansay

66

(10)

Richard Bausch

76

(7)

Larry Brown

83

(14)

Michael Chabon

97

(11)

Robb Forman Dew

108

(19)

Richard Ford

127

(12)

Ha Jin

139

(7)

Patricia Henley

146

(9)

Tony Hillerman

155

(6)

Charles Johnson

161

(8)

Wally Lamb

169

(17)

Valerie Martin

186

(13)

Jill McCorkle

199

(13)

Alice McDermott

212

(6)

Sena Jeter Naslund

218

(14)

Lewis Nordan

232

(8)

Sheri Reynolds

240

(11)

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

251

(12)

Jane Smiley

263

(8)

Lee Smith

271

(7)

Theodore Weesner

278

(10)

John Yount

288