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How To Write A Novel: The Fast-And-Furious Version
August 24th, 2011 | Characterization, Dialogue, How to write a novel, Plot, Storytelling | journalpulp | 3 Comments
Here, then, is how you create a setting: One hour before nightfall, on a pink-and-blue evening in the third week of August, 2011 … Here’s how you create a character: a solitary man traveling on foot … Here’s how you introduce a situation: entered the small, tree-shadowed town of Clifton — an isolated village about [...]
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Characterization (Part 2)
July 25th, 2011 | Characterization, Dialogue | journalpulp | 1 Comment
[Note: I've updated this post and changed the dialogue example] In Part 1 of this post, I mentioned that a fictional character is shaped by his or her words and actions, and that for this reason, plot and dialogue are the sine-qua-non of character development. The following, then, taken from an actual book (written in [...]
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