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| Characters and Viewpoint | |
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By Jaret, Section Nonfiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Thu Dec 5th, 2002 at 11:25:57 PM EST |
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History has shown that what makes a masterpiece isn't plot, but characterization. Writers such as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck used plot as a structure on which to build primarily character based stories.
In his book Characters and Viewpoint writer Orson Scott Card provides a set of tools from which to build effective characters. (1718 words in story) Full Story |
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| The Moral Animal | |
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By Jaret, Section Nonfiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Sat Oct 19th, 2002 at 02:31:07 AM EST |
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In 1857 Charles Darwin brought about a revolution with his book on evolution, The Origin of Species. It's since become commonly accepted that human traits are the result of natural selection, but only in recent years has this been applied to psychology. Robert Wright's The Moral Animal is about this burgeoning new field known as evolutionary psychology.
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| The Hero With a Thousand Faces | |
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By Jaret, Section Nonfiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Fri Oct 11th, 2002 at 10:51:21 PM EST |
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Behind every myth lies a simple story, a common theme, a set of motifs that span the world. At the root of these motifs are the trials of life, and at the heart of the story, the hero. You are that hero, says Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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| The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps | |
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By Jaret, Section Nonfiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Sun Jul 28th, 2002 at 11:52:47 AM EST |
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The Millennial Project is a thousand year plan to colonize the galaxy. Yes, you read that right, no need to adjust the sanity controls on your computer.
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