Creating Characters: How to Build Story People (31 page)

Stableford, Brian,
162

Stage,
155–156

Steinbeck, John,
80

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
77
,
83
,
130

Stinson, Jim,
123

Story,
104
,
141
; definition of,
43
,
55
; long story,
147–150
; short story,
146–147

Stout, Rex,
78
,
173

Stranger in a Strange Land
,
73

Streetcar Named Desire, A,
80

Superman,
66
,
148

Suspects
,
22

Swanson, Charles,
149

Symbionese Liberation Army,
12

Symmes, John,
77

Szasz, Thomas,
85

Szondi Test,
8

Tags,
18–19
,
21
,
22–26
,
63–64
,
131
; ability,
23
,
25
; appearance,
23–24
; attitude,
23
,
25
; contrast, importance of,
25–26
; mannerism,
23
,
25
; of speech,
23
,
24–25
,
137
,
140

Tall Dolores, The,
90

Tarzan,
7
,
130
,
148
,
183

Taylor, John,
163

Techniques of the Selling Writer,
58
,
176

“Tell-Tale Heart, The,”
87

Telling,
148
; vs. showing,
175–176

Thinkers Exchange,
71

Third-person viewpoint,
97–98

Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, The,
185

Thomas, Ross,
24

Thomas, W.I.,
40

Three-Penny Opera,
132

Through Darkest America,
161

Torrey, E. Fuller,
85

Town and Country
,
167

Traits,
21
,
26–32
,
131
; action to show,
29–30
; human,
26
; individual,
26
; planting,
177
; rules for,
180
; social,
26
; typical,
26

Trollope,
77

Truck Shot,
123

Twain, Mark,
175

Twist, Oliver,
7
,
183

2001,
106

Tyler, Anne,
108

Types,
27–28

Tyranny of the “should,”
114–120

Unanticipated, the,
115–116
,
119

Underground Dictionary, The,
24

University of Oklahoma Professional Writing Program,
26

Unorthodox Practices,
113

Valentine, Jimmy,
175

Van Vogt, A.E.,
106

Vanity Fair,
167

Vesco, Robert,
3

Viewpoint, “author omniscient,”
95
; “I Am A Camera” approach,
95
; weaknesses,
170–174

Viewpoint character,
48
,
92–98
,
149
,
170–174
,
176

Villain,
89
,
101–102
,
104
,
172
,
173
,
177
;
See also
Antagonist

Vocation, in dominant impression,
15
,
16

Watson, Doc,
93

Wayne, John,
156

Weaknesses,
170–174

Weill, Kurt,
132

Wertham, Frederick,
179

Western Words,
24

Whitman, Charles,
85

Whitney, Phyllis,
35

Wild cards,
76–87

Williams, Tennessee,
80

Wilson, Colin,
80

Wilson, George P.,
24

Winfrey, Oprah,
168

Wiseguy,
69

“Witch of Wall Street,”
77

Wizard of Oz, The
,
78

Wolfe, Nero,
78
,
92
,
173

Woman’s Day
,
167

Women in Business
,
167

Words,
128–136

Working Woman
,
167

Wren, M.K.,
22

Zest, search for,
182–186