9 Terms
Contributors in Fiction
Fiction
Fictional dream
Literature; Fiction
The illusion that there is no philtre between reader and events, that the reader is actually experiencing what he is reading. The stronger the fictional dream, the more immediate the story. ...
First-draft-itis
Literature; Fiction
Various flaws which everyone, including the author, agrees immediately should be corrected. E.g.: a character who has blue eyes in Chapter 2 has brown eyes in Chapter 7; or an important feature of ...
Ficelle character
Literature; Fiction
From the French word for 'string,' a term used by Henry James to denote a character who exists simply to move the plot or drama from place to place. In Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Rosencranz and ...
Fog
Literature; Fiction
A reader's state of inability to imagine clearly the setting or action the author is presenting. Usually arises because the author has skimped on tactile description or otherwise shortchanged the ...
Film it
Literature; Fiction
A self-test of critiquing. To judge a scene or chapter, mentally convert it into a movie or screenplay. This effectively subtracts all narration and exposition and leaves only description, dialog, ...
Foreground
Literature; Fiction
Draw attention to something for artistic effect, or make the central element in a scene or story.
Freeze-frame
Literature; Fiction
Adapted from the movies, a brief pause for description of a new person, thing, or event.
