Tag: Diane Orsini
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The Filtering Consciousness of Your Characters
Fiction is not just the record of an event; it is the interpretation of the meaning of that event by someone. The biases and convictions of that filtering consciousness will express a truth the story cannot do without—and you get to manipulate that! How fun! –Dianne Orsini, Professor of English and Creative Writing Teacher My…
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Writing, Point of View and Mind on the Page
Point of View, like chess, is the simplest and most complicated pleasure yet devised for just the kind of mind that would take Creative Writing online. If Character is the casting call and Plot is what happens next, then Point of View is how you set up the camera angles and which lenses you’ll use.…