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Story Lab: Techniques

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The classic list of narrative techniquies

  POV (Pont of View; 1st person, 3rd person)

  Story (beginning, middle, end)

  Characters (creating characters of varying moods that
              interact - creating the story and probably...

  Conflict (always a good idea, to have this, even if it's
            just a discussion of differeing opinions)

  Time-Space -- the passage of time, or traveling from one
                place to another. in SciFi, the limits are
                out of this world.

  Theme - this can usually be tied to ghe genre (eg, mystery,
          scifi, horror, action/adventure, etc).

  Plot -- there are (according to one author) 20 basic plots:
          Adventure, The Hero's Journey, Transformation,
          Revelation/Mystery, Explorations of ideas,
          

  Structure - again a straightforward telling, or one
              with many flashbacks, and internal mumblings
              by the various characrters.

  Style -- the hardest thing to define:  The way the 
           author uses words, and the kinds of words
           that they use. In total the combination
           of all other facotrs.

  Symbolism - esp in poetry. This often occurs in character
              series; eg, Homer's Odyssey, we often see
              phrases like "sharp eyed Athena" -- tellling
              us that not much gets by her. We can associate
              symbols with a person (as we can with imagery...

  Imagery (comparisons and such - making everything not
           so literal; eg, instead of "He was very tall,
           standing 6'8" in stocking feet" -- "He towered
           over us like some sad, old oak tree - all
           six feet and eight inches of him". This 
           reveals the info, but by using the comparison
           to an oak tree (and a sad one at that), it 
           tells us something of his disposition and
           internal narrative.

  Unity (drawing the work together so that (esp in longer
         works) its begnining, middle and end "hang" 
         together and the reader doesn't feel that 
         they've wasted their time).

  One thing to do is 

     google    "narrative technique" "style" 


  You may find these links useful:

   http://literaryterms.wikispaces.com/narrative+technique

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_mode
     (which i got using "point of view" in the google search)