Steering the craft: a twenty-first-century guide to sailing the sea of story

The sound of your writing

Punctuation and grammar

Sentence length and complex syntax

Repetition

Adjectives and adverbs

Verbs: person and tense

Point of view and voice

Changing point of view

Indirect narration, or what tells

Crowding and leaping

Appendix: the peer group workshop

Exercises: Being gorgeous ; Am I Saramago ; Short and long ; Again and again and again ; Chastity ; The old woman ; Points of view ; Changing voices ; Telling it slant ; A terrible thing to do.