Characters and Viewpoint

Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

A how to write book.

Covers topics like sources for characters, how to develop the original notion, the differences between serious and comic characterization, how to engage sympathy, the differences between bit and minor and major characters, where you exactly want to stereotype your character (when he's actually so bit that he's scenery), attitude, points of view, and more.

hello, world!

So their studies begin.  And I conclude the best way to do drama is to steal from my computer science course. . . .

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