Table of Contents
Foreword Gillian Welch vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Object Writing: The Art of the Diver 3
Chapter 2 Rusty's Collar: A Lesson in Showing and Telling 19
Chapter 3 Making Metaphors 23
Chapter 4 Learning to Say No: Building Worksheets 33
Chapter 5 Clichés: The Sleeping Puppy (A Case Study) 47
Chapter 6 Productive Repetition 55
Chapter 7 Verse Development and Power Positions 82
Chapter 8 Travelogues: Verse Continuity 93
Chapter 9 Stripping Your Repetition for Repainting 101
Chapter 10 Perspectives 111
Chapter 11 Point of View: Second Person and the Hangman 128
Chapter 12 Point of View: Second Person as Narrative 132
Chapter 13 Dialogue and Point of View 139
Chapter 14 Meter: Something in Common 147
Chapter 15 Spotlighting With Common Meter 153
Chapter 16 Meter: Two by Two 161
Chapter 17 Managing Couplets 168
Chapter 18 Prosody: Structure as Film Score 177
Chapter 19 Understanding Motion 189
Chapter 20 Form Follows Function: Building the Perfect Beast 229
Chapter 21 The Great Balancing Act: Courting Danger on the High Wire 239
Chapter 22 Song Forms: (Im) Potent Packages 250
Chapter 23 Song Forms: (Im) Potent Packages II 257
Chapter 24 Process 262
Appendix: Co-Writing: The "No"-Free Zone 289
Permissions 292
Index 295