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Steven Barnes's Articles in Writing

  • The Lazy Man's Guide To Great Characterization
    One subject arising whenever writers gather to discuss their craft is the mining of life itself for story material. While a vital and important technique, it is important to remember that real human beings are impossibly complex, far too complicated to serve as story characters without major modification. The most complex character in all of western fiction (arguably), Hamlet, is still only 1% as complex as a real human being.

    One must remember that there is a unity betwe...
  • The Billionaire Writer's Secret
    During a career spanning twenty-five years of novel, film, and television work, I've two major tools most valuable: the yogic “chakras” for characterization, and Joseph Campbell’s model of the Hero’s Journey for plot structure.

    These are not random choices, nor were they selected because of the many intelligent and thoughtful essays on their relationship to successful film or world myth.

    Rather, they are important because they create a connection between the inner world...

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