Characters & Viewpoint

Orson Scott Card

ISBN 10: 1599632128 / ISBN 13: 9781599632124

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1988

Leichte Risse. 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 memory, your imagination and your soul. 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 the characters from a variety of sources, including a story's basic idea, real life-even a character's social circumstances 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 one 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 82abe52a-c503-4702-b304-a75fa1efdc6e

Inhaltsangabe:

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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: About the Author

Orson Scott Card is an award-winning science fiction novelist whose credits include the Hugo Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. His novels include Ender's Game, Shadow of Hegemon, and Speaker for the Dead, among others.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Characters & Viewpoint
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Fine
Auflage: 2. Auflage