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Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint (Rated: ASR)
Product Type: BookReviewer: ElaineElaine Review Rated: ASR |
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Summary of this Book... | ||
If you ever have any questions about how to write a character and present that character's viewpoint, read this book. And even if you don't have questions, you'll gain by reading this book -- it is that well written. | ||
I especially liked... | ||
The discussion of the various ways of presenting viewpoint. It is one of the best discussions of the various distances each viewpoint from first person to the various levels of third person will present. | ||
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to... | ||
Why go out and write some super characters. | ||
The author of this Book... | ||
"Orson Scott Card is an award-winning science fiction novelist whose credits include the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. His most recent novels include Ender's Shadow and Shadow of Hegemon." | ||
I recommend this Book because... | ||
As one of the Elements of Fiction Writing published by Writer's Digest, it is an excellent book to hone one's skill in telling a story. | ||
Further Comments... | ||
Sections and chapters are Part I: Inventing Characters 1. What is a character? 2. What makes a good fictional character? The Three Questions Readers Ask - You Are the First Audience - Interrogating the Character - From Character to Story, from Story to Character 3. Where do characters come from? Ideas from Life - Ideas from the Story - Servants of the Idea - Serendipity 4. Making Decisions Names - Keeping a Bible Part II: Constructing Chracters 5. What kind of story are you telling? The "MICE" Quotient - Milieu - Idea - Character - Event - The Contract with the Reader 6. The hierarchy Walk-ons and Placeholders - Minor Characters - Major Characters 7. How to raise the emotional stakes Suffering - Sacrifice - Jeopardy - Sexual Tension - Signs and Portents 8. What should we feel about the character? First Impressions - Characters We Love - Characters We Hate 9. The hero and the common man 10. The comic character: controlled disbelief Doing a "Take" - Exaggeration - Downplaying - Oddness 11. The serious character: make us believe Elaboration of Motive - Attitude - The Remembered Past - The Implied Past - Justification 12. Transformations Why People Change - Justifying Changes Part III: Performing Characters 13. Voices Person - Tense 14. Presentation Vs. Representation 15. Dramatic Vs. Narrative 16. First-Person narrative Which Person Is First? - No Fourth Wall - Unreliable Narrators - Distance in Time - Withholding Information - Lapses 17. Third person Omniscient vs. Limited Point of View - Making Up Your Mind - Levels of Penetration 18. A private population explosion | ||
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