title: Method and Madness: The Making of a Story: A Guide to Writing Fiction
author:  Alice LaPlante 
description: Alice LaPlante teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Stanford University, where she is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her fiction has been published in the Southwest Review, Epoch, and Stanford Magazine, and her nonfiction has been published in Discover, BusinessWeek, and the San Jose Mercury News, among other publications. She lives in Palo Alto, California.
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  THE FINAL CALLING
  
  
  THE CRUCIBLE SERIES BOOK
  
  
  5
  
  
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  by
  
  
  ANGELA COLSIN
  
  
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  Copyright © 2016 by Angela
  
  
  Colsin. All rights reserved by the author.
  
  
  Published by Angela
  
  
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  This story is a work of
  
  
  fiction. All characters, names, places, and events are either the
  
  
  product of the author's imagination, or merely used fictitiously.
  
  
  Any resemblance to actual locations, events, or persons, living or
  
  
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
    
  
  
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  Transmission of this publication by any means other than the
  
  
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