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

Preface to the Second Edition

vii

Writing a Novel

Introduction

3

(4)

The Book in the Mind

7

(8)

The Elements of Fiction

15

(33)

Seeing It Through

48

(8)

Revision

56

(17)

The Interviews

Dorothy Allison

73

(16)

Larry Brown

89

(14)

Peter Cameron

103

(12)

Michael Chabon

115

(12)

Michael Cunningham

127

(16)

Robb Forman Dew

143

(18)

Richard Ford

161

(14)

Ha Jin

175

(8)

Patricia Henley

183

(9)

Charles Johnson

192

(9)

Wally Lamb

201

(17)

Valerie Martin

218

(13)

Jill McCorkle

231

(13)

Sena Jeter Naslund

244

(13)

Lewis Nordan

257

(8)

Sheri Reynolds

265

(11)

S. J. Rozan

276

(14)

Jane Smiley

290

(8)

Lee Smith

298

(8)

Theodore Weesner

306

(11)

Writing Exercises

317