Marginalia

Craft skills for fiction writing, drawn from Saunders's close readings of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Gogol.

Skills for receiving feedback skillfully — separating triggers, understanding the three conversation types, and growing from difficult input.

Skills for discussing what matters most — navigating the what-happened, feelings, and identity conversations with clarity and care.

245 exercises for status, spontaneity, acceptance and group mind. Practice drills from the improv tradition, with a dependency graph encoding each exercise's teaching order.

A vocabulary for emotional experience. Eighty-seven feelings sorted into thirteen "Places We Go", explored as a graph of variations and complementaries instead of a list of skills.

Attachment, trauma, and the moves for becoming secure with self and partners. The HEARTS framework, the nested model of attachment, and the work of polysecurity.