Archive for the ‘Character Types’ Category
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I went to Kristin Nelson's blog, she is a literary agent out of Denver, CO. She links to Joelle Anthony's site where Anthony lists 25 Things to Avoid when Writing Y/A Novels. Her list compiles 25 things that (may) be overused in current Y/A literature and writing. I am not ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I was pleased to discover, the other day, while reading a book on fairy tales, that there are six major fairy tale types. These are:
Sleeping Beauty
Little Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Snow White
Bluebeard
and Beauty and the Beast
These are the major, archetypal, fairy tale stories. These stories can be found in many places in ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
What is POV?
Well, simply put it is Point Of View. Which then leads to: What does this mean? (You might've added some colorful language. That's okay.)
POV is the point from which a story is told. Specifically, it is the character you follow as a reader. In most stories this character ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Simply defined, the antagonist is the person directly oppposed to the protagonist. Because we've discussed the protagonist and we know that the term protagonist does not, necessarily, denote good guy or hero, the antagonist is not someone who is inherently evil or bad.
Rather, the antagonist is someone who is directly ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
A couple of weeks ago Jordan and I were having a discussion about what constitutes a hero. As a result of his constantly telling me someone was a "hero" I made him define what he meant. This is, according to basic philosophy, an Aristotelean trick designed to bring everyone on ...
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