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9781599632124

Elements of Fiction Writing: Characters & Viewpoint

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  • ISBN13:

    9781599632124

  • ISBN10:

    1599632128

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-01-18
  • Publisher: Writers Digest Books

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Author Biography

Orson Scott Card is an award-winning science fiction novelist whose credits include the Hugo Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. His novels include Ender's Game, Shadow of Hegemon, and Speaker for the Dead, among others.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Inventing Charactersp. 4
What is a Character?p. 5
A Character Is What He Does
Motive
The Past
Reputation
Stereotypes
Network
Habits and Patterns
Talents and Abilities
Tastes and Preferences
Body
What Makes a Good Fictional Character?p. 19
The Three Questions Readers Ask
You Are the First Audience
Interrogating the Character
From Character to Story, From Story to Character
Where Do Characters Come From?p. 32
Ideas From Life
Ideas From the Story
Servants of the Idea
Serendipity
Making Decisionsp. 54
Names
Keeping a Bible
Constructing Charactersp. 61
What Kind of Story Are You Telling?p. 62
The "Mice" Quotient
Milieu
Idea
Character
Event
The Contract With the Reader
The Hierarchyp. 76
Walk-Ons and Placeholders
Minor Characters
Major Characters
How to Raise the Emotional Stakesp. 87
Suffering
Sacrifice
Jeopardy
Sexual Tension
Signs and Portents
What Should We Feel About the Character?p. 96
First Impressions
Characters We Love
Characters We Hate
The Hero and the Common Manp. 120
The Comic Character: Controlled Disbeliefp. 129
Doing a "Take"
Exaggeration
Downplaying
Oddness
The Serious Character: Make Us Believep. 137
Elaboration of Motive
Attitude
The Remembered Past
The Implied Past
Justification
Transformationsp. 156
Why People Change
Justifying Changes
Performing Charactersp. 163
Voicesp. 164
Person
Tense
Presentation Vs. Representationp. 174
Dramatic Vs. Narrativep. 182
First-Person Narrativep. 186
Which Person Is First?
No Fourth Wall
Unreliable Narrators
Distance in Time
Withholding Information
Lapses
Third Personp. 202
Omniscient Vs. Limited Point of View
Making Up Your Mind
Levels of Penetration
A Private Population Explosionp. 226
Indexp. 228
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