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Writing Science Fiction: Characters & Point of View
Creating Characters
Greetings from your tutor (1:47)
All fiction is about people
Archetypal characters
Exercise #1: Observing characters
What defines a character?
Read: Never Let Me Go and 1984
Exercise #2: Create a character
Exercise #3: Continue your Journal
Half-way quiz
Whose Story Is It?
Multiple characters (0:52)
Read: How Beautiful With Banners
What does it matter whose story I am telling?
The points of view available to the writer – Part 1
Exercise #4: Using first person
The points of view available to the writer – Part 2
The points of view available to the writer – Part 3
Exercise #5: Using third person
Read: The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi
Read: Immersion
Exercise #6: Continue your journal
Character Plus Situation Equals Plot
Adding characters to your plot (0:15)
More on character
Read: Who Can Replace a Man?
Exercise #7: Plot a basic story
Character + Situation = Plot
Exercise #8: Adding characters
Onward (0:54)
What does it matter whose story I am telling?
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