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A
Achilles vi, 12, 77
Aeschylus xi
Aesop 86
agents 190, 191, 192, 193
Amazon.com 138, 195
American novel 24, 62, 71, 183
angel 159
anguish of choice 42, 44, 45, 55, 58, 77, 78, 130
anima 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 158, 160
anima/us 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 160
animus 151, 152, 155
antagonist 16, 21, 23, 26, 31, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 48, 55, 60, 123, 130
archetypal images 149, 150, 151, 153, 156
archetypal psychology xi, 48, 156
Ariadne 148
Aristotle 3, 12, 40, 85, 204, 211
Art viii, 4, 5, 122, 185, 186, 204, 205, 207, 208, 211, 212, 213
Asklepios 159
Aspen Writers Conference 183
Association of Authors Representatives (AAR) 190
atmosphere 12, 59, 116
author/character relationship 34
authorial distance 72
author’s glow 169
B
Bach, Richard 63, 78, 136, 163
backstory 73
Bates, Marilyn 47
beginning vii, viii, 16, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 42, 43, 56, 63, 64, 69, 73, 77,
108, 111, 114, 116, 122, 123, 153, 161, 164, 173, 178
blacksmith vi, 6, 8, 12, 13, 22, 32, 97
Bradbury, Ray 100, 101, 116, 135, 206, 211
Burroway, Janet 3, 38, 164, 204, 208, 211
C
cause-and-effect 105, 110
central conflict 9, 15, 24, 74, 104, 106, 108, 109, 113, 114, 174
chapter binder 125
Chapter Internal Structure 111
Chapter Purpose 109
chapters v, viii, 108, 109, 112, 139
chapter sequence 110
chapter summaries 108, 125, 174, 191
character emotion 51
character action 50
character arc 42
character bonding 58
character change 41
character creation 37
character emotion 34
character identity 45
characterization 12, 38, 39, 48, 57, 88, 127
character motivation 34, 51
character social status 52
Characters Within a Larger Social Context 57
character thoughts 52
character voice 50
Clancy, Tom 7, 68
Clark, Arthur C. 32
Colebrook, Claire 29, 84, 91, 92, 205, 206, 211
collective unconscious 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 160, 162,
171
complexes 147, 148, 157
conflict 7, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33,
38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 50, 51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 68, 74, 76, 77, 79,
80, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 113, 114, 123, 124, 128, 130, 136,
147, 153, 154, 168, 174, 199
Conflict Resolution 27
Cooper, James Fenimore 26
Craft 4, 5, 124, 177, 186, 204, 207, 208, 211, 214
craftsman vi, 5, 6, 12, 17, 65, 177
CreateSpace 194, 195
creating story 76
creating the narrator 65
creativity 21, 84, 145, 147, 185, 196
critiquing 184
D
da Vinci, Leonardo 115
Delany, Samuel R. 185, 208
Demeter 22
depression 168
de Santillana, Giorgio 103, 206, 211
dialogue 10, 50, 78, 79, 80, 136
Dickens, Charles 76, 179, 206, 211
Dillard, Annie 169, 175, 208, 211
Dionysus 46
Dostoevsky ix, 7, 9, 43, 69, 70, 102, 205
drama viii, ix, 36, 38, 197
dramatic irony 91
du Maurier, Daphne 46
E
Eastwood, Clint 59
editing v, 174, 181
ego 145
emotional instability 168
ending 21, 22, 23, 28, 114, 116, 119, 122, 123
Ethics of Writing v, 171
Euripides xi, 54, 205, 211
evoking the senses 97
F
Faulkner, William 186
fictional world 11, 34, 36, 64, 66, 72, 79, 82, 93, 94, 95, 116, 119, 124, 125,
127, 135, 144, 145, 160, 163, 177, 182
first chapter 108, 112, 113, 182, 191
first-person narration 52, 69, 92
first plot point 24, 27
First Plot Point 24, 199
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 28, 29, 48, 67, 113, 117, 119, 205, 207, 212
flashback 73, 74
Flaubert, Gustave 35, 67, 123, 207, 212
Frank, Joseph 69, 70, 205, 212
Freud ix, x, 145, 156, 164
G
good and evil 20, 30, 31
Grand Illusion 93
Greece x, 22, 46, 159
Groups as Characters 56
H
hallucinate 96, 144
Hansen, Ron 73, 114, 205, 206, 212
heart of character 39
Hemingway, Ernest 98, 99, 100, 116, 117, 121, 180, 182, 186, 206, 208,
212
Hephaestus vi, 12, 132
Hera 159
Hermes 159, 160, 161, 165, 167, 168, 213
hero 8, 38, 58, 59, 113
Herodotus 143
Hesiod xi, 83, 84, 206, 212
Hillman, James xi, 156, 208, 212
Hippocrates 159
Hollywood 4, 8
Homer vi, xi, 53, 71, 72, 77, 141, 153, 204, 205, 212
human psyche 145
I
illusion 5, 46, 61, 62, 93, 95
Intellectual World v, 102
ironic character 87
irony v, 82, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 205, 206, 211
ISBN ii, 195
J
James, Henry xi, 5, 8, 14, 15, 26, 28, 31, 63, 68, 134, 137, 156, 178, 179,
197, 198, 204, 207, 208, 212, 213, 214
Jocasta 89, 90
Joyce, James 178, 208, 213
Jung, Carl viii, x, xi, 3, 47, 106, 145, 147, 149, 155, 156, 162, 171, 172,
173, 206, 207, 208, 213, 214
Jungian psychology xii, 4, 21, 140, 153, 156, 159
K
Keirsey, David 47
Kerényi, Karl x
King David 157
Kingsolver, Barbara 70
Kundera, Milan 5, 204, 213
L
Labyrinth 148
Laius 89, 90
Lajos Egri viii, 204
landscape 12, 20, 99, 116, 119, 133, 136, 140, 141, 148, 181, 195
last chapter 113
Lee, Chang-Rae 119, 121
LeGuin, Ursla K. 63
liminality 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165
Locking the central conflict 24
M
Mantel, Hilary 49, 205, 213
meaning 104
Melville, Herman 63, 69, 109, 125, 200, 205, 213
metaphor vii, 6, 22, 29, 40, 62, 83, 85, 88, 117, 124, 132, 133
Mid-Novel Reversal 25
Minotaur 148
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 47
myth viii, xi, 4, 27, 48, 90, 91, 103, 140, 141, 148, 157, 168
mythical knowledge 103
mythology iv, x, xi, 3, 4, 27, 84, 129, 131, 157, 203
N
narration 5, 33, 52, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 74, 75, 81, 82, 86,
87, 92, 101, 127, 172, 174
narrative comments 80
narrative non-fiction viii, xi
narrative voice 71
narrator 28, 35, 38, 50, 52, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,
75, 80, 81, 86, 87, 91, 92, 95, 113, 117, 118, 119, 120, 174, 186
nature of reality 141
novel as a weaving 123
Novel Diagram 108, 110
novelsmith vii, 6, 8, 12, 13, 22, 30, 32, 61, 65, 69, 88, 93, 101, 102, 104,
108, 109, 114, 122, 125, 133, 140, 144, 147, 149, 153, 156, 157, 158,
160, 161, 163, 168, 170, 171, 173, 175, 176, 181
Novelsmithing vii, viii, 3
O
Oedipus viii, ix, 89, 90, 91, 157, 208
P
Pandora 12
paragraph structure 177
Pasternak, Boris 36, 57
past tense 75
Peripheral Characters and Subplots 56
perpetual conflict 32
persona 45, 46, 146, 151, 152, 160
Plato 83, 85, 124
plot i, v, 1, 12, 24, 25, 26, 42, 108, 199
plot irony/cosmic irony 89
plotting ix, x, 13, 28, 30, 31, 33, 104, 174
Plutarch 7, 8
point of view 66
POV 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 108, 139, 182
Premise viii, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31,
32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 55, 57, 58, 60, 66, 67, 76, 77, 78, 86, 104,
105, 106, 108, 111, 113, 114, 116, 122, 123, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130,
132, 138, 153, 154, 173, 174, 176, 199, 204
Premise Trinity 30
present tense 74
primary conflict 22, 26
processes 121, 136
protagonist 16, 21, 23, 26, 27, 31, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 55,
60, 66, 67, 69, 78, 114, 123, 130
psyche viii, x, 4, 22, 55, 143, 145, 146, 147, 149, 151, 156, 162, 163, 168
Psychology of Creativity v, 21, 140
publishing v, 188, 204, 205, 207, 211, 213
publishing houses 193
pulse of passion 51
Q
query letter 190
R
reader viii, 8, 10, 13, 18, 24, 25, 29, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 46, 48, 51, 52, 58,
61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81,
85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105,
106, 107, 109, 113, 116, 119, 122, 123, 128, 130, 135, 137, 143, 144,
154, 163, 170, 172, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 184, 185
reader/character relationship 35
reader sensory deprivation 94
real world 10, 11, 66, 67, 93, 94, 125, 135, 136, 141, 143
redemption 57
research v, 127, 128, 131, 138, 177
Rocky Mountain Writers Guild 183
rough draft viii, 11, 166, 174
Rowling, J. K. 59
S
Sagan, Carl 57
scene 116, 136
Scheid, John 124, 207, 214
Schroedinger, Erwin 142, 207, 214
screenwriting viii, ix
second-person narration 70
Second Plot Point 26, 42, 199
self-publishing 194
sentence structure 178
setting 12, 16, 28, 68, 75, 110, 116, 117, 121, 124, 126, 136, 137, 174, 182,
203
Shakespeare 7, 8, 43, 174
Sheehy, Gail 48
Shelly, Mary 127
sight 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 100, 142, 182
smell 35, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 135, 142, 182
Socrates 83, 85, 88, 92
sound 10, 15, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 153, 164, 167, 180, 200, 201
Spielberg, Steven 57
Steinbeck, John 113, 115, 206, 214
Stein, Murray xi, 48, 145, 151, 152, 155, 168, 207, 208, 214
storytelling vii, viii, x, xi, 3, 5, 10, 18, 22, 23, 27, 30, 64, 72, 102, 103, 105,
121, 140, 141, 154, 179, 196
style 61, 62
subconscious 21, 22, 96, 135, 157
subplot 56
suspense 77
Svenbro, Jesper 124, 207, 214
synopsis 21, 191, 193
T
taste 35, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 135, 142, 173
Teiresias 91
tension 17, 68, 72, 91, 112, 181
Thematic Character 55
theme 106
Theseus 7, 148
Tolkien, J. R. R. 56, 59, 68
total sensory deprivation 36, 94, 100, 143, 144, 182
touch 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 101, 114, 135, 142, 184, 197
tragic flaw 40
transcendence 154
transitions 122
Tyler, Anne 51
U
unconscious 74, 105, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158,
159, 160, 161, 162, 168, 171
University of Colorado 183
V
verbal irony 86
villain 38
W
Walker, Alice 81, 206, 214
Waller, Robert James 63, 113, 163
Weaver, Sigourney 94
websites 138, 193, 194, 195
Welty, Eudora 176
Whedon, Joss 59
Wikipedia 138
Wilder, Thornton 157, 208
World Trade Center 137
writer’s block 167
writing groups 182, 183, 184, 186
Z
Zeus 53, 83, 84, 124, 159, 172, 207, 214 |
