Category: Character in Fiction

  • How (My) Characters Come to Be

    At the moment, Iโ€™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 โ€œcharacter 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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