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luggage

Blowing up a character

Jun 19, 2006 03:10

I was talking to a friend recently about writing and mentioned the three things Samuel R. Delany said to put in a story for a well rounded character. "There [are] three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous." ("Characters" Jewel Hinged Jaw p. 157, referring to a passage from Nova.) Of course, I wasn't quite that eloquent on the ( Read more... )

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limen June 19 2006, 12:26:45 UTC

It's interesting to rea snippettes of your work... FINALLY. :-) If it's any encouragement, I want to read more!

Tell me how Octavia Bulter influences you.

pangolin June 19 2006, 17:13:44 UTC

Good to know!
...and interesting excerpts.

todfox June 20 2006, 00:00:40 UTC

I wish this was public so I could link to it from my writer's group. Great stuff!

luggage July 13 2006, 05:32:35 UTC

I put it on my home page: http://www.jamesmith.com/archives/2006/06/blowing_up_a_ch.html

I'll be posting later on why I'm starting to put my personal site back together and up to speed again.