Writer’s Review Series

May 18, 2010

Character and Viewpoint: a review

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Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 Orson Scott Card’s Character & Viewpoint has a lot packed into a few pages. He takes you from the first stages of character development (i.e. what makes a character? how do we create them?) to fully fleshed-out character creation (i.e. types of characters, emotional stakes, and believability), and he […]

March 17, 2010

The First Five Pages: a review

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Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 Noah Lukeman’s The First Five Pages is a well-known guide to writers that, rather than offer rules for “great writing”, lays out “ways to avoid bad writing.” Lukeman is a literary agent, so he knows all about the importance of hooking your reader in the opening pages of your […]