Each story takes place in a specific place at a specific time. The characters move in that environment and are profoundly influenced by it: in the way they behave, speak, and think. This is why is the novel’s setting essential to craft a story that your readers will love. What is the setting of a …
In one of our previous series, we dealt with Campbell’s archetypes. In this article on Narrative Theory, we discuss the 12 Jungian archetypes, facets of the personality that reside within each of us and that show up at different times in our lives. What are the 12 Jungian archetypes? Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss …
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When you start writing a story, you think about the plot and the characters. One of the first things you write about is the character’s name.What are the steps for choosing a character’s name? The name represents the character and should not be selected too hastily and superficially. It is as important as the behavior’s …
When you write a story, the real difficulty is to capture the readers’ attention and keep going with it. In this article on the Narrative Theory, we explain how to maintain the story tension. What is the story tension? The story tension is helpful to keep the reader glued to the pages. It is that …
Have you ever read a description of the real world embellished with magical, enchanted details? If the answer is yes, you’ve stumbled upon what writers call Magical realism. It is this Magical realism that we talk about in this article of the perspective series. What is Magical realism? This perspective narration was born first in …
In the Perspective Series, we saw different narrative techniques that show how a narrator can tell a story from several perspectives and different points of view. What we will discuss in this article is another Perspective that is the Defamiliarization, a concept that comes from Russian literature. What is the Perspective of the Defamiliarization? Defamiliarisation, …
Only the last perspective is missing to complete the author/narrator Perspectives Series overview: Author surrogate. The surrogate author is a substitute for the author within the narrative. Let’s take a look at its characteristics and how best to use this technique. What is the Author surrogate? As the term itself suggests, the surrogate author is …
The particular point of view we talk about in this new article of the Perspective Series is the Audience surrogate. This perspective gets its name because a protagonist stands in for the audience reading the story. Let’s see its characteristics. What is the Audience surrogate? The Audience surrogate is a particular perspective that considers the …
Among the various Perspectives Series, we have written about First-person narration, Second-person, and Third-person.If you missed the article on Third-person limited narration, you could read the article on this type of Narration Perspective.However, there is another type of Perspective: Third-person omniscient narration. What is the Third-person omniscient narration? In general, in third-person narration, the story …