Introduction: Teach Yourself
Chapter 1: Developing and Researching Ideas for Stories
Chapter 2: The Spectrum of the Speculative Mode
Chapter 3: Designing Unreal Places
Chapter 4: Strange Characters
Chapter 5: Inventing Speculative Concepts in Social Sciences and Humanities
Chapter 6: Designing New Rules of Science or Magic
Chapter 7: The Rules of Beginnings, Middles, and Endings
Appendix: Syllabus: Creative Writing
Biography
Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of Anaphora Literary Press. She taught English literature and composition for over four years at colleges including the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism. She has published Rebellion as Genre (2013), Formulas of Popular Fiction (2014), and literary and linguistic articles in periodicals such as Humanities Bulletin, Critical Survey and East-West Cultural Passage.
