Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Why I Write	1
1	Before Writing	9
	Give Yourself Permission to Write	9
	Cultivating a Writing Habit	15
	Developing a Writer's Attitude	23
2	Starting to Write	28
	Write What?	28
	Listening to Your Voice	38
	Inviting Surprise	46
3	Trying on the Essay	55
	Exploring Personal Experience	55
	Finding a Context	65
	Thinking with a Reader	69
4	Trying on Fiction	77
	Experiencing Story	77
	Writing the Scene	84
	Live Within the Story	95
5	Trying on Poetry	101
	Experiencing Poetry	101
	"No Ideas but in Things"	110
	Play with the Line	116
6	After Writing	123
	Create a Writing Community	123
	The Art of Revision	135
	The Art of Editing	141
	Why Not Write a Book?	148
	Getting Published	152
	Annotated Bibliography	159