Table of Contents

A Writer's Guide to FictionNORTH: Getting Your Bearings
1. The Lay of the Land
2. Finding the Characters for Your Story
3. Finding a Map for Your Story
4. Heroes and Heroines
5. First Steps
6. Deepening Your Characters
7. Casting Characters for Story and Plot
8. Mapping from A to B to Z
9. Narration and Visuals: Settings, Description, and Imagery
10. Finding Your Gait
11. Ending Steps

SOUTH: Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving
12. Problems of Characterization, Structure, Technique, and Style

EAST: Your Rising Star
13. Learning to Market

WEST: Refining Your Vision
14. New Horizons

Index
About the Author

About the Author

Elizabeth Lyon, a regular speaker at writing conferences and retreats nationwide, has been a contributor to Writer's Digest and is a mentor, editor, and teacher for many writers. The author of Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write and The Sell Your Novel Toolkit, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.

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