Index

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