Description
Vivid and memorable characters arent 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 optionsthe choices youll make in creating fictional people so real that readers will feel they know them like members of their own families.
Youll 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 loveor 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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Published: 01/18/2011
Series: Elements of Fiction Writing
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781599632124
Language: English
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