Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint: Proven Advice and Timeless Techniques for Creating Compelling Characters by an a Ward-Winning Au (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781599632124)

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 sources
- Make 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 hate
- Distinguish among major characters, minor characters and walk-ons, and develop each appropriately
- Choose the most effective viewpoint to reveal the characters and move the storytelling
- Decide how deeply you should explore your characters' thoughts, emotions, and attitudes

Author: Orson Scott Card
ISBN-10: 1599632128
ISBN-13: 9781599632124
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2011
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 227