Five Approaches to Revising Character See part one here By Elissa Field Again, not all authorial characters are broken — but this post addresses the situation where characters drawn closely from the author come across as flat. Each of the following presents a possible source of the problem and how to address it. See-through narrator: beginner’s error? In…
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Fictional Characters and Autobiography– Part 1
Writing Character: One Most Like Yourself By Elissa Field The impetus for this article arose from a small tangent during a fabulous workshop I participated in with author Ann Hood. Among stories I’ve worked on in the past, I knew who my trickiest, most elusive or least successful characters were, but hadn’t noticed a pattern until an offhand comment…