Title:
Characters and viewpoint
Author:
Card, Orson Scott.
ISBN:
9780898799279
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st paperback ed.
Publication Information:
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, 1999.
Physical Description:
182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series:
Elements of fiction writing
Elements of fiction writing.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Inventing characters: What makes a good fictional character? -- Where do characters come from? -- Making decisions -- Constructing characters: What kind of story are you telling? -- Hierarchy -- How to raise the emotional stakes -- What should we feel about the character? -- Hero and the common man -- Comic character: controlled disbelief -- Serious character: make us believe -- Transformations -- Voices -- Presentation vs. representation -- Dramatic vs. narrative -- First-person narrative -- Third person -- A private population explosion.
Abstract:
Describes the function of characters in a story, discusses motive, stereotypes, models, minor characters, comedy, and transformation.