Words Made Flesh
by David Jauss, master fiction writer and instructor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program, contains six powerful essays on the craft of writing fiction: Homo Fictus vs. Homo Sapiens; Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Abstraction?: Conveying Emotion in Fiction; The Art of Description; "What We See With" Redefining Plot; Returning Characters to Life: What Chekhov Teaches Us about Endings; and The Flowers of Afterthought: Premises and Strategies for Revision.