Detailed Book Notes

How to Write Characters Readers CAN’T Ignore— Elements of Fiction Writing: Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

Love them or hate them, your audience can’t ignore them

Published in 1988, this is one of the books in the Ender’s Game author’s three-part series “On Writing.”

But just because certain writers know how to write doesn’t necessarily mean that they know how to teach it, especially through the more impersonal-distant means of writing a book about it.

(Much easier when you are a teacher, coaching writers in real time, and able to give feedback).

But does Orson Scott Card actually have something valuable to teach aspiring and practicing writers about creating characters that really “work”?

Check it out yourself!

Who this book is for: Aspiring writers, fans of Card, storytellers who want to learn more about the mechanisms behind characters that readers love to love and hate.

Scylighter rating: 4.3/6 ⭐s (explanation of ratings at the end)

TL;DR — Best Ideas From This Book

• Three questions you never want your readers to ask: 1) So what? 2)…