The King's Persons	1963
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden	1964
The Monday Voices	1965
Summering: A Book of Short Stories	1966
In This Sign	1970
Rites of Passage (Short Stories)	1972
Founder's Praise	1976
High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Short Stories)	1979
A Season of Delight	1981
The Far Side of Victory	1983
Simple Gifts	1986
Age of Consent	1987
Of Such Small Differences	1988
With The Snow Queen (Short Stories)	1991
No Reck'ning Made	1993
Where The Road Goes	1998
Appearances	2006

You have to like it - to want to do it.
It's work. There's a plot process, a psychological part - figuring out the characters' motives and personalities. There's a situational part laid on structure and character.
There are the words you use both in the characters and in the surround.
There are endless revisions, great and small (see #1). Writing is as earthbound as that.

The King’s Persons	1963
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden	1964
The Monday Voices	1965
Summering: A Book of Short Stories	1966
In This Sign	1970
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