On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Andrew Huang wrote:

A fourth type is the Character Author, in which getting inside the mind of
the characters is the important thing.  The plot may be flimsy, but this
type of author is very good at conveying the whole person of his/her/its
characters, from dialogue to mannerisms, to personality.  A good character

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	Hmm...actually, I think this is a combination of the wordsmith and
the mood shaper. The conveying of the character comes across as the

No, because it is a matter of intent.  There are a lot of different ways
to build up the image of a character.  Some people can do good character
work, but their technical writing skills suck rocks and they know squat
about evoking mood, but they know how to build believable characters, just
like there are authors who can build pretty pictures, but those pictures
are full of characters who aren't very dynamic or exciting.


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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New CS Lewis Quote :)
"This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn.  We must play.
but our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest
kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each
other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.  And out
charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in
spite of which we love the sinner--no mere tolerance or indulgence which
parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."
--The Weight of Glory