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  Characters & Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing) (Paperback) By (author) Orson Scott Card

  

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  Short Description for Characters & ViewpointVivid and memorable characters aren't "born" they have to be "made"This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination.Award-winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting characters, plus handling viewpo...
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  • Publisher: MEMORY MAKERS
  • Published: 08 July 2011
  • Format: Paperback 231 pages
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  • Categories: Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides | Writing & Editing Guides
  • ISBN 13: 9781599632124 ISBN 10: 1599632128
  • Sales rank: 50,482

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• Vivid and memorable characters aren't "born" they have to be "made"This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination.Award-winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting characters, plus handling viewpoint in novels and short stories. With specific examples, he spells out your narrative options—the choices you'll make in creating fictional people so "real" that readers will feel they know them like members of their own families.You'll learn how to: Draw characters from a variety of sourcesMake characters show who they are by the things they do and say, and by their individual "style"Develop characters readers will love—or love to hateDistinguish among major characters, minor characters and walk-ons, and develop each appropriatelyChoose the most effective viewpoint to reveal the characters and move the storytellingDecide how deeply you should explore your characters' thoughts, emotions, and attitudes