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The Adventure Story
Read more: The Adventure StoryI just finished re-reading The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, the precursor to the well-known Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Hobbit is an interesting book, filled with elves, goblins, trolls, dwarves, eagles, one huge dragon named Smaug, and of course, the hero of the story, the one and only hobbit, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. It is…
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Captain Bill
Read more: Captain BillI’ve become a proponent over the past few years of taking a minimalistic approach to the description of characters in a story. Whether it be a novel or a short story, or anything in between, the less description an author can give to a character, the better. Within reason, of course. The reason has to…