The Art of Fiction Writing

 

Or How to Fall Down the Rabbit Hole

Without Really Trying

by Emily Hanlon

 

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Introduction: Why the Rabbit Hole

  • Meet your Inner Writer -- maybe for the first time! (p.4)

  • Invitation to your Inner Writer to write to you! (p.5)

  • First Journey from the tape: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole. (p.7)

Chapter 1: Identifying the Inner Critic

  • From under which rock did the Inner Critic crawl? (p. 11)

  • Second Journey from the tape: Childhood Memory: How Your Inner Critic Came to Be. (p.16)

Chapter 2: Defanging the Inner Critic

  • Hear your Inner Critic's voice and what he/she says to undermine you. (p. 22)

  • Explore why outlining and finding the perfect word are Inner Critic traps. (p. 24)

Chapter 3: Risk, Passion and Creativity

  • The importance of passion in writing. (p. 33)

  • Encouraging your Inner Writer to come to the fore is a cornerstone of my method of teaching. I tell you how to go about doing that. (p. 34)

  • How to become a warrior for your creativity. (p.39)

Chapter 4: They Gypsy Dances

  • Risk: The Magic Ingredient of successful writing. (p 44)

  • How to let your imagination run free: guidance into writing a short piece about something challenges and delights you! (p. 54)

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"I love to do research. I love to make elaborate outlines. The hardest thing for me to do is sit down at my computer and wait for my characters to tell their stories. Stubbornly and despite Emily's advice to do just that, for years I insisted on doing it my way, only to become hopelessly bogged down. Finally, I decided to try Emily's way. I read The Art of Fiction Writing, listened to the tapes, did the exercises. Amazingly, Emily's way works! I fell down the Rabbit Hole and writing has become a pleasure. To be perfectly honest, it's still not easy, but now it's fun."

 

                         ~ Billie Lauricella

 

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Chapter 5: A Room of One's Own

  • Explore where you write. (p.58)

  • How to claim your writing space. (p.59)

Chapter 6: In Search of the Vampire Within

  • Exploration of the meaning of dark side -- and it's not Stephen King horror. (p.71)

  • Third Journey from the tape: Exploring Your Inner Desires. Some big surprises here! (p.72)

“The examples from the author’s own and students’ writings are great fun, sometimes dramatic—wonderfully apt; in sum here is a useful how-to which will also remain a stimulating source for self-renewal.”

 

            ~Tom Lewis, The Westchester Writer

 

Chapter 7: The Dark side

  • How to reclaim the passionate parts of you that your Inner Critic has "starched out." (p. 81)

  • The story of Dorsey, who was brought up to be a very good girl. How she broke free and became a passionate novelist. (p.86)

Chapter 8: The Skeleton in Your Closet: Embracing Your Dark side

  • A step by step guide to finding an exciting dark side character who lurks within you! It's a great ride!! (p. 100-103)

Chapter 9: The Light of the Dark

  • Emily tells the story of her own journey into the dark side and how a character who lived there changed her life in the most amazing ways!

Chapter 10: The Labyrinth Beckons

  • Emily and her character emerge from the underworld to write a novel that changed her life...

 "Emily's peculiar genius is helping fiction writers to find, feed, wrestling and live with their demons or muses. Where do my stories and characters come from, how do they take shape in me, how can I allow and at the same times manage, their release onto the unfriendly, staring page? These are the kinds of questions we tale tellers "work on" at these "work shops." The angel, bright or dark, must be conjured before words can truly attach."

                                      ~ Kurt Blankmeyer

 

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Chapter 11: The Destroyer

  • Emily tells you how falling in love with a murderer who showed up in one of her novels changed her writing and her life. (And she didn't have to go out an kill anyone either!!)

Chapter 12: Turning Fact into Fiction

  • A step by step guide of how to take something from your life and turn it into fiction. (p. 139-141)

  • The five ingredients of the scene. It's all the technique you need to know and you'll only find it explained so easily and succinctly here. (p. 143)

Chapter 13: Childhood

  • Emily interviews your new character with over 50 questions. These questions can be used over and over in any story you write! They can jump start your writing, too.

Chapter 14: Eros

  • Writing the Erotic, a guided tour. (p. 177)

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Chapter 15: The Interview

  • A guide to interviewing your characters. (p.197)

Chapter 16: The Happy Ending: Love Conquers All

  • "The Magic Five Ingredients" of creative success. (p. 204)

  • How to establish a writing schedule that inspires you write instead of setting you up for failure.  (p208)

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 "In one thirty minute listening session, Emily had hit on what I suspected was wrong with my fiction writing but had never been told and had never been able to articulate for myself. She presented her belief that a writer has to be willing to dive into the "creative unconscious" in order to come up with the material that makes people laugh and cry and sigh over a piece of fiction. Emily led me to the edge of the swimming pool, gave me a nudge and said, 'Jump in." I floundered for a while, but she and the group members were there with support and struggles of their own to report. Slowly, I began to see that I was writing fiction from an entirely new perspective. The process now feels as if I were a sea gull swooping down closer and closer to the prize that awaits me under the water below."

                                                      ~ Angela Leone

 

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