Characters & Viewpoint - 9781599632124
Un libro in lingua di Card Orson Scott edito da Writers Digest Books, 2011
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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 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 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
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Characters & Viewpoint
- Sottotitolo: Proven Advice and Timeless Techniques for Creating Compelling Characters by an Award-winning Author
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Card Orson Scott
- Editore: Writers Digest Books
- Collana: Writers Digest Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 18 Gennaio '11
- Genere: LANGUAGE ARTS and DISCIPLINES
- Argomenti : Fiction Technique Characters and characteristics in literature Point of view (Literature)
- Pagine: 231
- ISBN-10: 1599632128
- EAN-13: 9781599632124