Creating Characters: How to Build Story People (30 page)

Fear,
37–38

Feeling,
13
,
53–60
,
106
; in reader,
128
,
182
; in writer,
13–14
; rationalize reasons for,
3

Feep, Lefty,
135

Film Scriptwriting: A Practical Manual,
58

Film/TV,
156

Finn, Huck,
183

First-person viewpoint,
97

Flagg, Conan Joseph,
22–23
,
185

Flanders, Moll,
7
,
183

Fleming, Ian,
91

Fleshing out,
21–32

Fletcher, Jessica,
169

Focus,
92

Fonda, Jane,
25

Forward, Robert,
162–163

Foster-Harris,
160

“Four wishes,”
40

Freddie,
169

Freud,
126

Future,
157

Future history,
161–163

Future Magic,
163

Future Man,
16

Galileo,
114

Gantry, Elmer,
17

Genre characters,
150–152

Ginsberg, Allen,
28

Giono, Jean,
45

Glamour
,
167

Goal,
42–44
,
57
,
58
,
99

Gods Must Be Crazy, The,
106

Godzilla,
106

Goetz, Bernhard,
25

Goldman, Emma,
72–73

Goodwin, Archie,
173

GQ,
167

“Great Imposter,”
77

Green, Hetty,
77

Gresham, William Lindsay,
101

Greyfriars Bobby,
106

Grimes, Martha,
77
,
80
,
91

Gruber, Frank,
91
,
123

Guinness, Alec,
14

Gun in Cheek,
136

Hal,
106

Hamilton, Donald,
89

Hamilton, Nan,
89

Hamlet,
7

Hammer, Mike,
148

Hammett, Dashiell,
50
,
95
,
100

Happiness,
36–37
,
40–42

Harris, Thomas,
86
,
179

Health,
67–68

Hearst, Patty,
12

Heinlein, Robert,
73

“Helen O’Loy,”
105

Heller, Joseph,
73

Helm, Matt,
89

Hemingway,
50

Hepburn, Katharine,
103

Hercules,
12

Heredity,
65–68

“Herman the German,”
22

Hero,
55
,
89
,
98–101
,
101–104
,
125
,
126
,
172
,
173
,
174
,
176
,
177
;
See also:
Protagonist

Hero with a Thousand Faces, The,
46

Heroine,
55
,
89
,
98–101
,
101–104
,
151
,
173
,
176
,
177
;
See also:
Protagonist

Hill, Fanny,
183

Hillerman, Tony,
7
,
89

Hinton, S.E.,
179

Historical,
158–161

Hitchcock, Alfred,
8

Hite,
114

Hoare, Mad Mike,
65

Hogarth,
179

Holmes, Sherlock,
6
,
12
,
37
,
78
,
89
,
93
,
130
,
183

Homicide Investigation
,
149

Hook,
54–55

Hope, Bob,
108

Huckleberry Finn,
175

Hugo, Victor,
7

Humor,
108–127
; definition of,
108–109

“I Am A Camera” approach,
95

Ideas,
71–74

Incidental characters,
103–104

Incongruity,
120
,
124
,
126

Individual, imitation of,
3
; importance of,
3–4

Ingersoll, Robert G.,
72

Inside the Criminal Mind,
149

Introducing characters,
19

Ivanhoe
,
159
,
183

Jack the Ripper,
34

Jarre, Jean Michel,
104

Jaws
,
55

Jennings, Gary,
77

Johnson, George Clayton,
161

Juliet,
7
,
12

Keillor, Garrison,
108

Kemelman, Harry,
74

Kesey, Ken,
80

Kienzle, William,
24
,
73
,
91

King, Stephen,
34
,
77
,
87

Kinsey,
114

Knock Three-One-Two,
87

Kropotkin,
72

Labeling,
15–20

Lady Macbeth,
7

Lafargue, Paul,
72

Laing, R.D.,
85

L’Amour, Louis,
169

Landy, Eugene,
24

Lansdale, Joe,
91

Larger than life,
60

Laughter, definition of,
114

Lavender Hill Mob, The,
14

Le Moulin de Pologne,
45

Leary, Timothy,
73

Le Carré, John,
91

Lenny,
80

Life in Darwin’s Universe,
162

Lindsay, Judge Ben,
72

Logan’s Run
,
161

London, Jack,
105

Long John Silver,
66
,
130
,
183

Long story,
147–150

Look of the Old West, The,
160

Looking for Mr. Goodbar,
66

Lost World, The,
169

Love interest character,
102–103

Macbeth,
101

MacDonald, John D.,
7
,
22
,
93–95
,
183

MAD
,
167

Mademoiselle
,
167

Magic Wagon, The,
91

Maltese Falcon, The,
50
,
95
,
100

Man Who Walked Through Walls, The,
118

Manchu, Dr. Fu,
7

Manner, in dominant impression,
15
,
16–17
,
18

Mannerisms,
21
,
25

Manson, Charles,
70
,
175

Marlowe, Philip,
130

Martians, Go Home!,
106

Marx, Karl,
72

Mason, Perry,
169
,
183

McArdle, Phil and Karen,
149

McCrumb, Sharyn,
112
,
122

McGee, Travis,
7
,
22
,
183

Meily, Clarence,
72

“Millionaire hobo,”
77

Missing Persons,
86

Mister Macawber,
130

Morgan,
72

Moses,
12

Mote in God’s Eye, The,
150

Motive,
31–38
,
50–52
,
76
; definition of,
50

Motivation,
176–177

M/R gaps,
176–177

MTV,
168

Murphy, Pat,
23

Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution,
72

“My Heart’s in the Highlands,”
113

My Sister Eileen,
118

Names of characters,
22–23

Narration,
148

New Age music,
104

New Woman,
167

Nichol, Peter,
162

Nightmare Alley,
101

Nightmare on Elm Street,
169

1984,
162

Niven, Larry,
150

Nixon, Richard,
21

Nolan, William F.,
161

Non-human characters,
105–107

Non-likable characters,
179–181

Noon, Ed,
90

North and South,
159

“Not-you,”
157
,
163–168

Noun of vocation,
17
,
131

Novel,
147–150

Novelette,
147–150

Novella,
147–150

Of Mice and Men,
80

O’Hara, Scarlett,
7
,
183

Ohara,
89

Oliver, Gideon,
90
,
169

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
80

Orwell, George,
162

O’Shea, Wildcat,
90

Outsiders, The,
179

Over-the-Hill Gang, The,
14

Palmer, Ray,
137

“Parsimony, principle of,”
74

Past,
157
,
158–161

Pay off,
178

Paying the Piper,
112

Perfect Age, The,
23

Piesman, Marissa,
113

Pileggi, Nicholas,
69

Pinkwater, Daniel,
108

Planting,
177–178
; definition of,
177

Playboy,
167

Please Write for Details,
93

Poe,
87

Pohl, Fred,
169

Point of view,
48
,
92

Poirot, Hercule,
183

Pollyanna,
92

Polti, George,
185

Pournelle, Jerry,
150

Presley, Elvis,
21

Principle of parsimony,
74

Pronzini, Bill,
136

Protagonist,
98–101
,
104

Psycho,
76
,
80–87
; definition of,
80
; as viewpoint character,
86–87

Psycho
,
80

Ptath,
106

Puritanism
,
72

Purpose,
76

Quade, Oliver,
91

Quasimodo,
7
,
66
,
92

Radio,
152–155

Raft, George,
25

Rake’s Progress, The,
179

Rambo,
25
,
169

Randolph, Vance,
24

Raskolnikov,
3

Rationalization,
8–11
; in background,
62–75
; of actions,
50–52
; presence and behavior,
8

Rationalize, to,
9
,
71
,
79
,
182

Reaction,
176

Reader identification,
60

“Real” people versus characters,
21
,
59
,
61–65

Recognition,
40

Red Dragon,
86

Regan, Dian Curtis,
23

Relationships,
21
,
26–28

Renfroe, Martha Key,
22
,
185–186
;
See also
M.K. Wren

Research, inadequate,
174–175

Response,
40

Rice, Craig,
56
,
123

Right to be Lazy, The,
72

Rister, Carl Coke,
160

Ritual in the Dark
,
80

Rivera, Geraldo,
168

Roberts, Gillian,
123

Rodman, Howard,
8

Rogers, Will,
122

Roles,
88–107

Rolling Stone
,
167

Romeo,
12

Rosary Murders, The
,
24

Samenow, Stanton,
149

Sandler, Susan,
99

Sanger, Margaret,
72

Savage, Doc,
92

Sawyer, Tom,
183

Scarf, The,
30
,
87

Scene,
176
; definition of,
176

Science Fiction Encyclopedia,
162

Science in Science Fiction, The,
162

Scott, Walter,
159

Sears & Roebuck catalog,
160

Second-person viewpoint,
98

Security,
40

Sequel,
176–177
; definition of,
176

Series characters,
30

Serpent’s Mark, The,
86

Sex,
67
; in dominant impression,
15–16

Shakespeare,
7
,
77

Shane,
185

Shannon, Dell,
56

Shape of Minds to Come, The,
163

Shaw, George Bernard,
67

Shylock,
183

Short story,
146–147

“Should,” the,
114–120
,
126

Showing,
148

Silence of the Lambs, The,
179

Smiley, George,
91

Smith, H. Allen,
118

Snyder, Le Moyne,
149

Socrates,
114

Sod House Frontier, The,
160

Southern Plainsmen,
160

Spade, Sam,
100
,
183

Specificity,
130–135

Speech,
21
,
24–25

Spock, Mr.,
92

“Springboard scene,”
55