 Fantasy: October 31, 2018 Issue [#9200] |
This week: Character Classification and Editing Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!”
CK Webb
"Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught."
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NaNoWriMo is about ready to start, so it may be a little early to discuss editing. However, I discovered a test I took in a writing class in 2001 at the Community College of Southern Nevada, which started me to thinking about the character in relation to the plot. As I read, my one paragraph answer, I realized the problem I am encountering, while editing a previous NaNoWriMo novel, concerns the characters.
Test question: What are the six categories of character classification?
My answer: The six categories by which we can classify all characters are: (1) The amount of influence the characters have over the plot; (2) The amount of change the characters exhibit in their personalities; (3) The fullness of the characters' personalities; (4) The hero/protagonist; (5) The villain/antagonist; and (6) The stock or foil characters.
I know there are more character classifications than those in my answer, because in my research I discovered one website that listed nine character types. However, in editing the novel, "Scavengers" , I am focusing on the protagonist and antagonist. These are the two characters I know best. Unfortunately, they appear to be flat characters who do not assist the movement of the plot.
Happy and productive NaNoWriMoing!
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Excerpt: In the Time of Blood and Ice is the tale of two Elves, Kaitee and Meann, born identical but not twins and not in the same village. The twins met and fell in love on the banks of River Yeen.
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Excerpt: Jessica turned the lever of the hatch and waited till the hissing sound stopped releasing the door from its compartment. Once free of its encasement, Jessica pushed it aside and stepped back. A big leaf swung in as though invited. Jessica moved the leaf aside and peeped outside. They seemed to the have landed in the middle of a forest. The trees were huge and green. She took out her bio-scanner and probed the device out the door.
Excerpt: The World had been around for awhile. She had seen creatures large and small come and go. When She snoozed for a couple centuries She missed out on some entirely. She sometimes thought that the so-called Middle Ages were her fault... but what could She say? She was vacationing among the Polynesians.
Excerpt: The ground crackles as each footstep lands on the gravel under him. The trees overhead form a tunnel of greenery. Large, old, wooden boards form this rustic bridge that lay in front of him. Some of them look old and weak, but he knows their stable, at least stable enough to support a carriages' weight. His heart starts racing and he's breathing rapidly. He finds himself starting to hyperventilate. The sick feeling that grows within his belly makes him wonder if he'll ever get across the bridge today. He has to back away from the bridge as a carriage rolls on through, startling him. Backing away causes him to begin to feel better, his breathing returns to normal, his heartbeat starts to normalize. Feeling a bit better, he tries to cross again. He feels sick to his stomach and then starts to sweat, he has to back away for the second time. Other people don't seem to understand his fears, hell, neither does he. Was it the height or possibly the deep river that flows a hundred feet below him? He's afraid to try to get a ride across the bridge for fear of being laughed at. He will just have to run halfway across the bridge, it's long enough that he knows he'll have to walk the rest of the distance to the end, he's too out of shape to make it all the way.
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Excerpt: The day dawned red. A great sun-glow filled half the sky. Steve drove the black hovercar along an invisible lane over vast yellow cornfields.
Excerpt: Candice sat down on the rubble from the exploded building next to the troll. Although well over nine feet tall and even taller counting his horns, the troll looked small and lost the way he hunched forward and rested his face in his hands. He let out a deep sigh.
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