User:Rafael.tota/Books/Creative Writing - Full

A guide of references for storytelling

 * Characters of a Narrative
 * Protagonist
 * Antagonist
 * Archenemy
 * Deuteragonist
 * False protagonist
 * Focal character
 * Foil (literature)
 * Supporting character
 * Tritagonist
 * Narrator


 * Plot
 * Dramatic structure
 * Dialogue
 * Conflict (narrative)
 * Climax (narrative)
 * Falling action
 * Dénouement
 * Exposition (literary technique)
 * Subplot
 * Plot device
 * Plot twist
 * Deus ex machina
 * Dangler (plot device)
 * Deathtrap (plot device)
 * Cliffhanger
 * MacGuffin
 * Red herring
 * Shoulder angel


 * Setting
 * Archetype
 * Dystopia
 * Fictional country
 * Fictional location
 * Fictional universe
 * Stock character
 * Survivalism
 * Utopia


 * Themes
 * Leitmotif
 * Moral
 * Motif (narrative)


 * Style
 * Diction
 * Figure of speech
 * Imagery (literature)
 * Literary technique
 * Narrative mode
 * Stylistic device
 * Suspension of disbelief
 * Symbolism (arts)
 * Tone (literature)


 * Form
 * Fable
 * Fairy tale
 * Flash fiction
 * Hypertext fiction
 * Novel
 * Novella
 * Play (theatre)
 * Poetry
 * Screenplay
 * Short story


 * Genre
 * Adventure novel
 * Crime fiction
 * Docufiction
 * Epistolary novel
 * Faction (literature)
 * Fantasy
 * Historical fiction
 * Horror fiction
 * Magic realism
 * Mystery fiction
 * Paranoid fiction
 * Philosophical fiction
 * Political fiction
 * Romance novel
 * Saga
 * Satire
 * Science fiction
 * Speculative fiction
 * Superhero fiction
 * Thriller (genre)
 * Urban fiction


 * Narration
 * First-person narrative
 * Second-person narrative
 * Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)
 * Third-person limited narrative
 * Third-person narrator
 * Third-person omniscient narrative
 * Unreliable narrator


 * Tense (Time)
 * Future tense
 * Past tense
 * Present tense


 * Other References
 * Alternate history
 * Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
 * Apocalypticism
 * Audience
 * Cyberpunk
 * Doomsday event
 * Dying Earth (subgenre)
 * Fantasy tropes and conventions
 * Narrative structure
 * Rhetoric
 * Self-fulfilling prophecy
 * Soft science fiction
 * Storytelling
 * Utopian and dystopian fiction
 * Zombie apocalypse


 * Stock Characters and Stereotypes
 * Absent-minded professor
 * Alazon
 * Archimime
 * Archmage
 * Artist-scientist
 * Bad boy (archetype)
 * Bible thumper
 * Bimbo
 * Black knight
 * Blonde stereotype
 * Bounty hunter
 * Boy next door
 * Bug-eyed monster
 * Byronic hero
 * Cannon fodder
 * Caveman
 * Christ figure
 * Contender (stock character)
 * Crone
 * Damsel in distress
 * Dark Lady (character)
 * Donor (fairy tale)
 * Elderly martial arts master
 * Epic hero
 * Everyman
 * Evil clown
 * Evil twin
 * False hero
 * Femme fatale
 * Final girl
 * Folk hero
 * Gentleman thief
 * Girl next door
 * Grande dame
 * Gunfighter
 * Hag
 * Handmaiden
 * Hawksian woman
 * Hooker with a heart of gold
 * Hotshot (stock character)
 * Ingenue (stock character)
 * Jack (hero)
 * Jewish lawyer stereotype
 * Jewish mother stereotype
 * Jewish-American princess stereotype
 * Jock (athlete)
 * Killbot
 * Knight-errant
 * Legacy Hero
 * Loathly lady
 * Lovers (stock characters)
 * Mad scientist
 * Magical negro
 * Mammy archetype
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl
 * Mary Sue
 * Masked Mystery Villain
 * Miles Gloriosus
 * Miser
 * Mistress (lover)
 * Mythological king
 * Nerd
 * Nice Jewish boy stereotype
 * Noble savage
 * Petrushka
 * Princesse lointaine
 * Rake (character)
 * Redshirt (character)
 * Reluctant hero
 * Romantic hero
 * Shieldmaiden
 * Superhero
 * Supervillain
 * Tragic hero
 * Trickster
 * Tricky slave
 * Whiz kid
 * Yokel
 * Youxia