PART3
Character, Setting, and Types of Stories
In Parts 1 and 2, you’ve been introduced to some generalities about writing and a number of its most minute details. Part 3 is about assembling all those components—along with some new ones—into coherent works of creative writing that stand on their own, in their entirety. What might have seemed overwhelming without the content in this book’s first two parts is now fully possible. You are ready.
Part 3’s chapters address the three fundamental things that make a narrative: character, setting, and action. Chapter 7 focuses on characterization through the avenues of dialogue and authorial design. The idea of design also informs Chapter 8 and its information on rendering setting. As you’ll discover, ...
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