“Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.”
— Nancy Ann Dibble
Tag: Characters
Border Voices of the Author
Writers Aren’t People…Exactly
Writer Divide Thyselves
Create People—Leave the Characters
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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True Alchemists of Words
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
— William H. Gass
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Don’t Kill Your Book
Make Your Reader Believe
“If you tell the reader that Bull Beezley is a brutal-faced, loose-lipped bully, with snake’s blood in his veins, the reader’s reaction may be, ‘Oh, yeah!’ But if you show the reader Bull Beezley raking the bloodied flanks of his weary, sweat-encrusted pony, and flogging the tottering, red-eyed animal with a quirt, or have him booting in the protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and, boy, the reader believes!”
— Fred East
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Creative Pattern Recognition
“Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.”
— Douglas Coupland
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