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Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint: Proven Advice and Timeless Techniques for Creating Compelling Characters by an Award-Winning Aut

Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint: Proven Advice and Timeless Techniques for Creating Compelling Characters by an Award-Winning Aut

Card, Orson Scott

Paperback

Series: Elements of Fiction Writing

Writing Instruction

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ISBN10: 1599632128
ISBN13: 9781599632124
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: Jan 18 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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

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