Index
A
Achilles vi, 12, 78
Aeschylus xi
Aesop 88
agents 193, 195, 196, 197
Amazon.com 141, 198
American novel 23, 63, 72, 186
angel 162
anguish of choice 43, 45, 46, 56, 59, 78, 79, 133
anima 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 163
anima/us 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 163
animus 154, 155, 158
antagonist 16, 17, 21, 23, 26, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 48, 56, 61, 127, 133
archetypal images 152, 153, 154, 156, 159
archetypal psychology xii, 49, 159
Ariadne 151
Aristotle 12, 41, 87, 209, 215
Art viii, 10, 125, 189, 209, 210, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217
Asklepios 162
Aspen Writers Conference 186
Association of Authors Representatives (AAR) 193
atmosphere 12, 60, 120
author/character relationship 35
authorial distance 73
author’s glow 173
B
Bach, Richard 64, 79, 139, 166
backstory 74
Bates, Marilyn 48
beginning vii, viii, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 43, 44, 57, 64, 65, 70, 74, 78, 111, 114, 117, 119, 125, 126, 156, 164, 167, 176, 181
blacksmith vi, 7, 10, 12, 13, 22, 32, 99
Bradbury, Ray 102, 103, 119, 138, 211, 215
Burroway, Janet 4, 39, 167, 209, 213, 215
C
cause-and-effect 108, 113
central conflict 8, 15, 24, 75, 107, 109, 111, 113, 116, 117, 178
chapter binder 128
Chapter Internal Structure 114
Chapter Purpose 112
chapters v, viii, 111, 112, 115, 142
chapter sequence 113
chapter summaries 111, 128, 177, 194
charaacter emotion 52
character action 51
character arc 43
character bonding 59
character change 42
character creation 38
character emotion 35
character identity 46
characterization 12, 39, 40, 49, 58, 90, 130
character motivation 35, 52
character social status 53
Characters Within a Larger Social Context 58
character thoughts 53
character voice 51
Clancy, Tom 6, 69
Clark, Arthur C. 32
climax 28, 43
Colebrook, Claire 29, 86, 93, 94, 210, 211, 215
collective unconscious 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159, 160, 161, 163, 165, 174
complexes 150, 151, 160
conflict 6, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 51, 52, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 69, 75, 77, 78, 80, 81, 107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 116, 117, 126, 127, 131, 133, 139, 150, 156, 157, 171, 178, 204
Conflict Resolution 28
Cooper, James Fenimore 26
Craft 4, 10, 127, 181, 189, 209, 212, 213, 215, 218
craftsman vi, 10, 12, 17, 66, 180
CreateSpace 198
creating story 77
creating the narrator 66
creativity 22, 86, 148, 150, 188, 200
critiquing 187
D
da Vinci, Leonardo 119
Delany, Samuel R. 188, 213
Demeter 22
depression 171
de Santillana, Giorgio 106, 211, 215
dialogue 10, 51, 79, 80, 81, 139
Dickens, Charles 77, 183, 211, 215
Dillard, Annie 172, 178, 213, 215
Dionysus 47
Dostoevsky ix, 6, 8, 44, 70, 71, 105, 210
drama viii, x, 37, 39, 202
dramatic irony 93
du Maurier, Daphne 47
E
Eastwood, Clint 60
editing v, 177, 184
ego 148
emotional instability 171
ending 21, 22, 23, 28, 117, 119, 122, 126
Ethics of Writing v, 174
Euripides xi, 55, 210, 215
evoking the senses 99
F
Faulkner, William 190
fictional world 11, 35, 37, 65, 67, 73, 80, 84, 95, 96, 97, 119, 122, 127, 128, 130, 138, 147, 148, 163, 166, 180, 185
first chapter 111, 115, 116, 185, 195
first-person narration 53, 70, 94
first plot point 24, 27
First Plot Point 24, 25, 204
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 28, 29, 30, 49, 68, 116, 120, 122, 210, 212, 215, 216
flashback 74, 75
Flaubert, Gustave 36, 68, 126, 212, 216
Frank, Joseph 70, 71, 210, 216
Freud ix, x, xi, 148, 159, 167
G
good and evil 20, 30, 31
Grand Illusion 95
Greece x, 22, 47, 162
Groups as Characters 57
H
hallucinate 98, 147
Hansen, Ron 74, 117, 118, 210, 211, 216
heart of character 40
Hemingway, Ernest 100, 101, 102, 119, 120, 124, 184, 190, 211, 213, 216
Hephaestus vi, 12, 135
Hera 162
Hermes 162, 163, 164, 168, 170, 171, 217
hero 7, 39, 59, 60, 116
Herodotus 146
Hesiod xi, 85, 86, 211, 216
high concept 8
Hillman, James xi, 159, 213, 216
Hippocrates 162
Hollywood 8
Homer vi, xi, 54, 72, 73, 78, 144, 156, 209, 210, 216
human psyche 148
I
illusion 5, 47, 62, 63, 95, 97
Intellectual World v, 105
ironic character 89
irony v, 84, 86, 87, 92, 93, 94, 210, 211, 215
ISBN ii, 198
J
James, Henry xi, 5, 7, 14, 15, 26, 28, 31, 32, 64, 69, 137, 140, 159, 181, 183, 202, 203, 209, 212, 213, 216, 218
Jocasta 91, 92
Joyce, James 181, 213, 216
Jung, Carl viii, x, xi, 48, 109, 148, 150, 152, 158, 159, 165, 174, 175, 176, 211, 212, 213, 216, 217, 218
Jungian psychology 22, 143, 156, 159, 162
K
Keirsey, David 48
Kerényi, Karl x, xi
King David 160
Kingsolver, Barbara 71
Kundera, Milan 5, 209, 217
L
Labyrinth 151
Laius 91, 92
Lajos Egri viii, 209
landscape 12, 20, 101, 119, 122, 136, 139, 143, 144, 151, 184, 199
last chapter 117
Lee, Chang-Rae 123, 124
LeGuin, Ursla K. 64
liminality 161, 162, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168
Locking the central conflict 24
M
Mantel, Hilary 50, 210, 217
meaning 107
Melville, Herman 64, 70, 112, 128, 205, 210, 217
metaphor vii, 10, 22, 30, 41, 63, 85, 87, 90, 120, 127, 135, 136
Mid-Novel Reversal 25
Minotaur 151
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 48
myth viii, xii, 27, 49, 92, 93, 106, 143, 144, 151, 160, 171, 172
mythical knowledge 106
mythology iv, x, xi, 27, 86, 132, 134, 160, 208
N
narration 5, 33, 53, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 82, 84, 88, 89, 94, 103, 130, 175, 177
narrative comments 81
narrative non-fiction viii, xii
narrative voice 72
narrator 28, 36, 39, 51, 53, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 81, 82, 88, 89, 93, 94, 97, 116, 120, 121, 122, 123, 190
nature of reality 144
novel as a weaving 126
Novel Diagram 111, 113
novelsmith vii, 8, 10, 12, 13, 22, 23, 31, 32, 62, 66, 70, 90, 95, 103, 105, 107, 111, 112, 117, 125, 128, 136, 143, 147, 150, 152, 156, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 166, 171, 173, 174, 176, 178, 179, 184, 185
Novelsmithing vii, viii
O
Oedipus viii, ix, 91, 92, 93, 160, 213
P
Pandora 12
paragraph structure 181
Pasternak, Boris 37, 58
past tense 76
Peripheral Characters and Subplots 57
perpetual conflict 32
persona 46, 47, 149, 154, 155, 163
Plato 85, 87, 127
plot i, v, 1, 12, 24, 25, 27, 43, 111, 204
plot irony/cosmic irony 91
plotting ix, 13, 28, 31, 33, 107
Plutarch 7
point of view 67
POV 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 111, 142, 185
Premise viii, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 56, 58, 59, 61, 67, 68, 77, 78, 79, 88, 107, 108, 109, 111, 114, 116, 117, 120, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135, 141, 156, 157, 176, 179, 204, 209
Premise Trinity 30
present tense 75
primary conflict 22, 26
processes 124, 139
protagonist 16, 21, 23, 26, 27, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 56, 61, 67, 68, 70, 79, 117, 127, 133
psyche viii, xi, 22, 56, 146, 148, 149, 150, 152, 154, 159, 165, 166, 171
Psychology of Creativity v, 22, 143
publishing v, 191, 209, 210, 212, 215, 217
publishing houses 196
pulse of passion 52
Q
query letter 194
R
reader viii, 8, 10, 13, 18, 23, 24, 26, 30, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 47, 49, 52, 53, 59, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 116, 119, 122, 125, 126, 131, 133, 138, 140, 146, 147, 157, 166, 173, 175, 181, 182, 183, 185, 187, 188
reader/character relationship 36
reader sensory deprivation 96
real world 9, 11, 67, 68, 95, 96, 128, 138, 139, 144, 146
redemption 58
research v, 130, 131, 134, 141, 180
Rocky Mountain Writers Guild 186
rough draft viii, 11, 169, 177
Rowling, J. K. 60
S
Sagan, Carl 58
scene 119, 139
Scheid, John 127, 212, 218
Schroedinger, Erwin 145, 212, 218
screenwriting viii, ix
second-person narration 71
Second Plot Point 27, 43, 204
self-publishing 198
sentence structure 181
setting 12, 16, 28, 69, 76, 113, 119, 120, 124, 127, 129, 139, 140, 177, 208
Shakespeare 7, 44, 177
Sheehy, Gail 49
Shelley, Mary 130, 175
sight 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 145
smell 36, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 138, 145
Socrates 85, 87, 90, 94
Sophocles ix, xi, 91, 213
sound 9, 15, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 156, 167, 171, 184, 205, 206
Spielberg, Steven 58
Steinbeck, John 116, 118, 211, 218
Stein, Murray xi, 49, 148, 154, 155, 158, 171, 212, 213, 218
storytelling vii, viii, x, xi, xii, 9, 18, 22, 23, 27, 31, 65, 73, 105, 106, 108, 124, 143, 144, 157, 183
style 62, 63
subconscious 22, 98, 138, 160
subplot 57
suspense 78
Svenbro, Jesper 127, 212, 218
synopsis 21, 194, 196
T
taste 36, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 138, 145, 176
Teiresias 93
tension 17, 69, 73, 93, 115, 184
Thematic Character 56
theme 109
Theseus 7, 151
Tolkien, J. R. R. 57, 60, 69
total sensory deprivation 37, 96, 102, 146, 147, 185
touch 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 103, 117, 138, 145, 188, 202
tragic flaw 41
transcendence 157
transitions 125
Tyler, Anne 52
U
unconscious 75, 108, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 171, 172, 174
University of Colorado 186
V
verbal irony 88
villain 39
W
Walker, Alice 82, 211, 218
Waller, Robert James 64, 116, 166
Weaver, Sigourney 96
websites 141, 196, 198, 199
Welty, Eudora 179
Whedon, Joss 60
Wikipedia 141
Wilder, Thornton 160, 213
World Trade Center 140
writer’s block 170
writing groups 185, 186, 187, 190
Z
Zeus 54, 85, 86, 127, 162, 175, 212, 218