Is Your Character Their Own Person, or are They YOU?
Creating original and believable characters without making them become YOU is the most difficult task a writer – aspiring or otherwise – can face. Fortunately, there are ways to make it easier for yourself if you just remember a few points.
The Death of Fiction: How Modernity Is Making Fiction Irrelevant
Fiction was once interesting. Now only the once-marginal categories of science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism dominate the fiction best-seller lists. So much reality delivered to the reading public has made readers too aware, too savvy, to savor much classic fiction. Fiction today is only relevant if it can deliver something very different from reality.
How to Create Believable Characters
Totally unrealistic characters kill otherwise decent stories all the time. Learn what makes a character believable and improve your writing.
Visceral Realism: Is It a Modern Literary Movement?
Is Visceral Realism a modern literary movement? Robert Bolano’s hugely successful work The Savage Detectives, translated into English in 2007, describes the visceral realists of Mexico City in the 1970’s, but where is their literary work to define their movement?
Naturalism
Naturalism in writing and the New Realists.
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