![]() The reader comes to a novel to be entertained, to pass time, to lose himself in a world different from his own. ![]() Yes, he may come to read elegant prose or the gritty rat-a-tat-tat of a crime novel, but he doesn’t want only to read words: he wants to experience adventure. He doesn’t care about diction or point of view or pacing or the other elements of fiction that the writer is concerned with-except as those elements succeed or fail at creating an entertaining story. This is what the reader opens a book to find. Plot, setting, and character deal with the story of stories. Stories of every length are about characters doing things in some place-people, place, and event. ![]() Yet there is no doubt that plot, setting, and character deserve a great deal of attention. Februby Fiction Editor Beth Hill last modified February 26, 2011ĭozens of elements go into novels, into crafting quality fiction.
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