Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 5
CHAPTER ONE: GENRE 7
CHAPTER TWO: CULTURAL WORLD-BUILDING 23
CHAPTER THREE: MORE CULTURAL WORLD-BUILDING 39
CHAPTER FOUR: PHYSICAL WORLD-BUILDING 57
CHAPTER FIVE: PLOT 71
CHAPTER SIX: MORE PLOT 88
CHAPTER SEVEN: CHARACTER 106
CHAPTER EIGHT: HEROES, VILLAINS, SIDEKICKS, AND BYSTANDERS 130
CHAPTER NINE: CHARACTER ARC 144
CHAPTER TEN: DESCRIPTION 161
CHAPTER ELEVEN: CONFLICT AND TENSION 175
CHAPTER TWELVE: EDITING, REVISING 192
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: YOUR FIRST CHAPTER 206
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: VOICE 222
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: WORDS AND WORLDVIEWS 238
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: SCIENCE FICTION 263
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: FANTASY 280
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: HORROR 295
EXTRA CREDIT ACTIVITIES 316
GLOSSARY 317
LISTS OF RECOMMENDED WORKS 320
HELPFUL WEBSITES ACTIVE AT TIME OF PUBLICATION 326
INDEX 327
AUTHOR & CONTRIBUTORS 332
VOCABULARY QUIZZES (answers in Teacher’s edition) 334
