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"Characters & Viewpoint"

 

by

Orson Scott Card

 

 

Writers Digest Books

 

ISBN#0898799279

$12.99

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INTRODUCTION

 

PART I: INVENTING CHARACTERS

1. What is Character?

2. What Makes a Good Fictional Character?

3. Where Do Characters Come From?

4. Making Decisions

 

 

PART II: CONSTRUCTING CHARACTERS

5. What Kind of Story Are You Telling?

6. The Heirarchy

7. How to Raise the Emotional Stakes

8. What Should We Feel About the Characters?

9. The Hero and the Common Man

 

 

 

10. The Comic Character: Controlled Disbelief

11. The Serious Character: Make Us Believe

12. Transformations

 

 

PART III: PERFORMING CHARACTERS

13. Voices

14. Presentation vs. Representation

15. Dramatic vs. Narrative

16. First-Person Narrative

17. Third Person

18. A Private Population Explosion

 

INDEX

 

SYNOPSIS: This instructional book is a great start for beginning writers.  You will learn how to make your characters human by giving them faults and motivations. What happened in their past to make them what they are today?  Learn how to do character interviews to shape and mold your characters into sympathetic hero/heroines. You will also learn the importance of secondary characters, and how to develop them into their appropriate roles.  Create characters your readers will identify with and love.

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