Category: Character in Fiction
How (My) Characters Come to Be
At the moment, I’m fascinated with this part of the process: how do characters such as Ishmael, Huck, Mrs. Bridge, Bilbo Baggins, or Count Rostov…
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Charismatic Characters
What I am offering here is not mine. It is Charles Baxter's.* I am bringing it here because it was an epiphany for me (or…
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The Invention of Character
There are many examples for writing students of exercises and worksheets through which to create characters. Do a search in Google Images for “character creation…
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The Presence of Person
A fellow writer of mine recently wrote a poem about the first year of her marriage and the challenges that arise when two people throw…
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The Power of Place
Among the elements of fiction - conflict, character, and place - I could argue for any one of them being the more palpable, the key…
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