1. Telling Begins in an Atmosphere of Urgency

2. Voice: Your Most Powerful Tool

3. The Writer as Singer

4. The Importance of Raw Voice

5. The Voice as an Instrument

6. Inner Listening

7. Distilling Voice

8. Inviting Accidents

9. Listening to the Voice of Childhood

10. Public and Private Voices

11. The Sound of Colloquial Voice

12. The Chorus of Voice

13. Who's Speaking?: Voice and Character

14. Capturing the Inner Critic

15. Learning to Spot the Imposter

16. The Writer as Presence

17. Becoming a Prose Thief

18. Using the Journal Dangerously

19. Writing in the Pressure Cooker: Leading Raw Voice into the Story

20. If

21. Craft and the Voice of the Story

22. Going Deeper into the Story: Voice as Composer and Instrumentalist

23. From Anecdotes to Stories

24. Catalysts for the Story: Character-, Plot-, and Vision-Driven Stories

25. Working with Short Forms to Discover Your Story

26. Point of View.