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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication and Acknowledgments
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Character-Building Essentials
Chapter One: How to Build a Character
Pick a Point of View
Select a Verb Tense
Craft a Flawed but Sympathetic Person
Introduce a Problem
Discover What Haunts Your Character
Create a Hybrid Character
Borrow from True Events and History
Visualize Your Character
Engage Your Characters
Write in Scenes
Chapter Two: Tell Me a Story
The Purpose of Narrative Voice
Narrative Voice and Point of View
Authorial Intrusion
Thoughts Versus Narrative Voice
Chapter Three: Tell It Like It Is
Setting Exposition
Visual Imagery Exposition
Personal and Thematic Philosophy Exposition
Chapter Four: Do You Feel Me?
The Wheel of Emotion: Surface and Subset Feelings
Essential Character Cues
Chapter Five: Character, Know Thyself
Avoiding Missteps in Character Development
How Characters Become Aware
Chapter Six: Tighten Tension
Creating Tension in First Person
Creating Tension in Third-Person Intimate
Creating Tension in Omniscient
Part Two: Character Cues and Point of View
Chapter Seven: Behind the I
Using Surface and Subset Emotions in First Person
Introducing Characters in First Person
Observing the Setting in First Person
Utilizing Sensory Perceptions in Action in First Person
Weaving Thought and Action in First Person
Weaving Thought and Setting in First Person
Chapter Eight: Closer and Closer
Surface and Subset Emotions in Third-Person Intimate
Introducing Characters in Third-Person Intimate
Observing the Setting in Third-Person Intimate
Weaving Thoughts and Action in Third-Person Intimate
Chapter Nine: It’s a Party
Introducing Characters in Omniscient
Moving from One Character’s Head to Another’s
Using Omniscient to Provide Information Characters Cannot Know
Using Omniscience to Provide a Pause
Using Omniscient to Provide Historical Context
Surface and Subset Feeling Cues in Omniscient
Character Interactions with Setting
Habits to Avoid in Omniscience
Chapter Ten: All About You
Different Versions of Second Person
Potential Pitfalls for Using Second Person
Surface and Subset Emotions in Second Person
Chapter Eleven: The Unreliable Narrator
The Unreliable Narrator in First Person
The Unreliable Narrator in Second Person
The Unreliable Narrator in Omniscient
The Unreliable Narrator in Third-Person Intimate
Becoming Reliable
Considerations for Creating an Unreliable Narrator
Part Three: Stretch Your Skills
Chapter Twelve: Plot and Point of View
What Is a Scene?
How POV Affects Your Plot
Character Transformation and the Energetic Markers
Defining the Scope of Character Change
Chapter Thirteen: Multiple Points of View
The Hallmarks of Multiple Viewpoints
Considerations for Choosing Multiple Viewpoints
Mistakes with Multiple Viewpoints
Distinguishing Multiple Characters
Determining the POV for Each Viewpoint Character
Examples of Multiple Viewpoints
Chapter Fourteen: Shattering Point of View
The Chorus or First-Person Plural Point of View
Fractured Narratives
Lyrical Forms
Chapter Fifteen: Literary Devices
Books Within Books
Technology as a Storytelling Device
Diary Entries
Chapter Sixteen: Try It on for Size
Writing Characters Who Are Not Like You
Checklists for Picking the Right POV
Choosing the “Wrong” POV
Chapter Seventeen: Practicing Point of View
Determining the POV
Play with Point of View
Afterword
Answer Key
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