Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 11 • Introduction: Choice Cuts • essay by Robert Reginald
• 15 • Dispatch from the Front: Never Waste Anything • (2009) • essay by Ardath Mayhar
• 18 • Paperback Writer • (2007) • essay by Victor J. Banis
• 33 • Tipping the Odds in Your Favor • (2009) • essay by Charles Allen Gramlich
• 42 • Writing Is Fighting the Familiar; or, 47 Years in the Wake of Adelbert Ames, Jr. • essay by W. C. Bamberger
• 56 • Slanting Can Be Fun and Dangerous; or, Art vs. All That Other Stuff • (2007) • essay by Charles Nuetzel
• 66 • A Few Words, a Very Few Words, on Writing • essay by Robert Reginald
• 71 • Writing with Purpose • (2009) • essay by Charles Allen Gramlich
• 74 • Preparing and Writing • (2009) • essay by Y. Du Bois Irvin and Charles Allen Gramlich and Elliott D. Hammer
• 81 • Images • (2005) • essay by Damien Broderick
• 89 • Emotion and Intellect in Poetry • (2009) • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 93 • Making Things Happen • (2009) • essay by Ardath Mayhar
• 97 • Plotting a Science Fiction Story • (1989) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 104 • Saying Much with Little: Some Practical Suggestions for Tightening Bulky Lines in Poetry • (2009) • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 109 • The Two-Headed Author: The Challenges, Risks, and Rewards of Collaboration • essay by John Weeks [as by John Howard Weeks]
• 116 • Love, Anyone? or, How to Write Sex Scenes • essay by William Maltese
• 147 • Writing for the Stage • essay by Francis Jarman
• 169 • On Translation • essay by Frank J. Morlock
• 180 • In Other Words...: Editing Borgo Press • essay by Robert Reginald
• 187 • How Not to Starve as a Writer • (2009) • essay by Ardath Mayhar