Tag Archives: Characterization
Escaping into Fantasy: Thoughts on Transportive Fiction
I’ve got a confession to make: I read for escape. I don’t just read to learn, or to shape my moral compass, or to consider the deeper truths of life. If any of that happens, I’m ecstatic. I love to … Continue reading
Posted in Genre Observations, Science Fiction, specfic, writing, Writing
Tagged Characterization, Pacing, Point-of-View, POV, Tension, writing
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Character Plausibility in Prose and on Screen
Over the last two years, The Professor and I have gotten really into police procedural TV. We’d been casual fans of NCIS and Criminal Minds for awhile, but when we got Netflix we started to systematically churn through shows like … Continue reading
Posted in Genre Observations, Writing
Tagged Bones, Burn Notice, Castle, Characterization, Film Characterization, Leverage, Lie to Me, Mysteries, NCIS, Numb3rs, Police Procedurals, Prose Characterization, Psych, Rex Stout, Screenwriting, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Vladimir Nabokov, White Collar, writing
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Earning/Maintaining a Reader’s Trust: Character/Narrator Consistency and Reliability (part 3 of 3)
NOTE: This is the third and final installment in a three-part series on earning and maintaining a reader’s trust. The first part focuses on earning initial trust just at the start of a story, while the second part focuses on … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Genre Observations, Science Fiction, scifi, specfic, Writing
Tagged A Beautiful Mind, Agatha Christie, Character Consistency, Characterization, Christopher Nolan, Chuck Palahniuk, Citizen Kane, Consistency in Characterization, Earning/Maintaining Reader Trust, Fight Club, Gene Wolfe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Huck Finn, In A Grove, James Clemens, Judy Blundell, Justine Larbalestier, Ken Kesey, Latro in the Mist, Les Miserables, Liar, Lolita, Mark Twain, Narration, Narrative Voice, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rashomon, Reader Trust, Ryanosuke Akutagawa, Soldier of the Mist, Star Wars, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Banned and the Banished, The Canterbury Tales, The Moonstone, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Prestige, The Usual Suspects, There Are Doors, Unreliable Narration, Unreliable Narrator, Victor Hugo, Vladimir Nabokov, What I Saw and How I Lied, Wilkie Collins, Wit'ch Fire, writing
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