Characters & Viewpoint

Characters & Viewpoint

<div><p><b>Vivid and memorable characters aren't <i>born</i>: they have to be <i>made</i></b></p><p>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.</p><p>Award-winning author <b>Orson Scott Card</b> 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.</p><p>You'll learn how to:</p><ul><li>Draw characters from a variety of sources</li><li>Make characters show who they are by the things they do and say, and by their individual "style"</li><li>Develop characters readers will love€"or love to hate</li><li>Distinguish among major characters, minor characters and walk-ons, and develop each appropriately</li><li>Choose the most effective viewpoint to reveal the characters and move the storytelling</li><li>Decide how deeply you should explore your characters' thoughts, emotions, and attitudes</li></ul></p></div>