Introduction / Leonard Peikoff --
Writing and the Subconscious --
Literature as an Art Form --
How to Develop a Plot Ability --
Concretize Your Abstractions --
Think in Terms of Conflict --
Style I: Depictions of Love --
from Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand --
from Notre-Dame de Paris / Victor Hugo --
from Of Time and the River / Thomas Wolfe --
from Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis --
from Star Money / Kathleen Winsor --
from By Love Possessed / James Gould Cozzens --
Style II: Descriptions of Nature and of New York --
from Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand --
from Seven Gothic Tales / Isak Dinesen --
from The Fountainhead / Ayn Rand --
from Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand --
from One Lonely Night / Mickey Spillane --
from The Web and the Rock / Thomas Wolfe --
Naturalistic Description --
Analysis of "A Letter on Style" / Sinclair Lewis --
Particular Issues of Style --
Narrative versus Dramatization --
Journalistic References --
Special Forms of Literature --
Tragedy and the Projection of Negatives.