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Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint: Proven Advice and Timeless Techniques for Creating Compelling Characters by an a Ward-Winning Au Kevin Wilhelm as they sayVivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination. Award winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting characters, plus handling viewpoint in novels and short stories. With specific examples,