Read this if you want to be a great writer / Ross Raisin

Intro; Contents; Introduction: The Seed; Chapter One: First steps; Exploration; Planning; Research; Method; Form; Extract: 'Swimming in Egypt'; Extract: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'; Chapter Two: Technique; The Opening; Extract: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'; Extract: 'Pereira Maintains'; Characters; Extract: 'The Beggar Maid'; Extract: 'A Mother', from 'Dubliners'; Extract: 'The Parting Gift', from 'Walk the Blue Fields'; Extract: 'Where I'm Calling From', from 'Cathedral'; Place; Extract: 'The Return of the Native'; Extract: 'The Carhullan Army'; Extract: 'May We Be Forgiven' Extract: 'Bleak House'Extract: 'Dirt Road'; Language; Extract: 'Herzog'; Extract: 'True History of the Kelly Gang'; Extract: 'Interpreter of Maladies', from 'Interpreter of Maladies'; Plot; Extract: 'The Grass is Singing'; Extract: 'Mrs Bridge'; Dialogue; Extract: 'On Beauty'; Extract: 'The Butcher Boy'; Sex; Extract: 'The Wallcreeper'; Originality; Extract: 'A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing'; Extract: 'The Driver's Seat'; Extract: 'A Heart So White'; Chapter Three: Honing; The Ending; Extract: 'Train Dreams'; Editing; Life, writing; Index; Text credits; Picture credits

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