Structure -- Meeting the mind -- Hallucinating emeralds -- Old friend from far away -- The inner life of fiction -- Eat the mountain -- Shall we plot along? -- She had to love chocolate -- But who is listening? -- Alleviating that thin constant writer's anxiety -- Reading -- Smack! into the moment -- Close and connected -- Memoir of madness -- Didn't Elvis and Oprah also come from Mississippi? -- You can't do it along -- Moving out beyond yourself -- You could get lost -- So you want to take a trip? -- Saving your life with a story -- Monday blazes up like gasoline -- What brings you to your knees? -- The life of things -- Lotus in muddy water -- Reining in your wild wild horses -- Cemeteries, nightclubs and worn shoes -- Writing as a visual art -- That small Colorado town -- Enlightenment or the Pulitzer? -- True Nell -- Lunch with the editor -- Clean your dishes -- Authentic taste of tough mind -- Drink a cup of tea -- Beethoven practiced too -- The thick red book -- Slow walking -- I'm tired -- Epilogue : a writing retreat.
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