creative writing

• fiction - a series of imagined facts with illustrates truths about human life
• fiction - does not require the representation of actual people and situations but characters and incident may be based on actual people and real life events
• short story and novel - principal types of fiction
• short story - a brief, artistic form of prose fiction which centers on a dominant impression
• novel - an extensive prose narrative, a book-length story written in prose usually comprising 75,000 to 100,000 words
• characters - an imagined person who inhabits a story, but characters may also be based on real people whom the writers uses as models
• characters - are the first essential ingredient in any successful story
• stock characters / stereotyped characters - characters that require less-detailed portrayal
• hero - the good guy or leading male character
• villain - whom the hero opposes, the bad guy
• heroine - the female leading character
• protagonist - an older and more neutral term than hero, for the leading characters which does not imply either the presence or the absence of outstanding virtue
• antagonist - the protagonist's opponent
• major or main character - also called lead characters, more complex than minor characters
• minor characters - other figures who appear in the story
• foil - contrast to the major character to highlight the particular qualities of the latter
• flat character - stock characters, who are somehow capable of advancing the plot, but require only the barest outlines of description
• round character - usually protagonist, more than one trait, complex and at times complicated, and posses traits that may even seen contradictory
• static character - do not experience changes through the course of the story
• dynamic character - experiences changes throughout the development of the story
• physical, sociological, psychological - three dimensions of fictional characters
• physical - such as body type, health, clothing, and movement
• sociological - character's name, biological details, social status, economic status, race and ethnicity, family members and relationships, residence, education, profession, and beliefs
• psychological - personality, speech patterns, attitudes toward self and others, hobbies and interests, talents, likes and dislikes, habits, dream, and ambitions, fears, sources of laughter, anger, worry or stress, his/her toward the opposite sex, teachers, superiors, friend, competition, etc
• point of view - the narrator in the story, where readers observe the events of the story, as the writer's special angle of vision, the one whose perspective is told
• focus- it is the frame through which characters, events, and other important details are viewed
• voice - refers to the words that embody the story
• first person - the narrator is a participant in the story, it uses the pronouns “I” or “We”, the narrator could be either a major or minor character that directly tells their own version of events that occured
• second person - used in telling a story to another character with

  the word “You”. Mostly told in the future tense. The author uses this POV to make readers feel like they are part of the story
• third person - Most common POV, uses the pronouns “he,” “she,” or “they”.  The narrator usually moves from place to place to describe action and report dialogue. The author is the narrator, words like “I,” “You,” and “Me” only appears in dialogues
• stream of consciousness - A technique used to represent the flow of impressions - visual, auditory, associative, and subliminal as they happen in the narrator’s head rather than a fluid or flowing style. Author includes a random catalogue of unrelated items in the story
• interior monologue - A device used by writers to make the character speak to assume that a character is delivering a speech for readers to hear
• dead stars - written by paz marquez benitez
• paz marquez benitez - authored the first filipino english language short story "dead stars"
• plot - sequence of events that includes a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• exposition - the plot, characters, and typically, the setting and time of the story are introduced by the author. Your explanation shows that you have given a certain opening more thought than any other.
• rising action - built to introduce complications that are either external or internal
• conflict - between two opposing forces; it is an occurrence, scenario, or circumstance that upends a stable situation
• external conflict - arises between the character and an outside force
• man against nature, man against man, man against society - types of external conflict