Creative Writing 101
By Sally OdgersLesson 5: Character Building.
Writing Exercise and Bibliography.
For the writing exercise this time, create a sympathetic character whose ideas are very different from your own. Introduce him or her in a short excerpt. Before you begin, plan the genre and part of the plot, or use a plot you have already invented during Lesson 4.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
'Translations in Celadon'.
'In Search of a Husband'.
The Phryne Fisher series by Kerry Greenwood.
The Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton. Sample title; 'M is for Malice', Macmillan 1997.
The Charles Paris series, by Simon Brett. Many titles reprinted by iUniverse in 2000. Sample title; 'So Much Blood', 2000.
The Vicky Bliss series, by Elizabeth Peters, Warner Books. Sample title; 'Night Train to Memphis', 1995.
The 'Big Mike' or 'Cat' series by Garrison Allen. Sample title; 'Movie Cat', Kensington Publishing, 1999.
'Anna's Own'. Pan Macmillan, 1995. Reissued by New Concepts Publishing in 2000.
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