![]() ![]() Is already adequately communicated by other details. Partly it is a matter ofĭeciding what is superfluous to include because what it is there for (having an interesting subordinate character "get out of proportion:"Īnd "run away with the story"). Partly this is a matter of not letting things get out of control "creative process" amounts to deciding what to cut out from successiveĭrafts. ![]() Out." In fact, many writers report that a large part of their Something the writer generally end up discovering in the process ofĮxperimenting with "what to put in" and "what to leave It is somethingĮlse - "the needs of the work as a whole," which itself is also Portrait for a client, but it can be and often is). Is, is not accuracy (it might not be that for a painter doing a I strive to capture in my representation of it, but more a matter of how complexĭoes this character need to be? The criterion of "need," that Writer as a matter of how much of what is already independently out there should That is:Ĭomplexity in characterization, in fiction, is not something that confronts the Reality, which he aims to represent, but making things up. ![]() In a moment) is that in fiction the writer is not starting from an existing One limitation (we'll have more to say on this ![]() Writers face analogous decisions, but (as we shall see) theĪnalogy goes only so far. Paint)? Should I work on a two-dimensional surface (paper or canvas) orĬonstruct something in three dimensions (casting bronze, carving stone or chiseling Monochrome (sepia ink, or pencil, or black oil on beige paper, or white-primedĬanvas), or should I do it in color (pastel pencils, or watercolor, oil-based Should I strive for complex accuracy of detail? Should I work in Shall I execute this portrait? Should I sketch it in simple terms, or The decisions a portraitist is confronted with is: in how great detail "portraiture" in drawing and painting, or in sculpture. Often we think of "characterization" as akin to Critical Concepts: Flat and Round Characterization ![]()
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