The Four Elements of Fiction: Character, Setting, Situation, and Theme is a detailed discussion about the importance of how the four elements of fiction must relate to one another in order to produce a page-turner. This book will provide the reader with the guidelines to help him or her understand how the creative mind can take an idea and effectively turn it into a story that will flow logically from beginning through the middle and to a satisfying end. The techniques of character development, strong dialogue, viewpoint and point of view, description are only a few of the items discussed in detail. The book also provides a character bio-sketch form for those writers who need the organizational help to design effective characters including the protagonist and the antagonist.
About the Author: Judith Reveal is a published author of the Lindsey Gale Mystery Series as well as her recent historical fiction The Brownstone. In 2015 she published a book of essays on Growing Up In Middle Class America, Post World War II. She also published Around Greensboro, a nonfiction historical book published by Arcadia Publishing. She is a freelance editor who provides copyediting services for authors of fiction, nonfiction, and essays. She has won awards for two of her short stories and many of her stories have been published in local, regional and national magazines. Ms. Reveal is a book indexer and has written indexes for close to 50 books. As a member of the American Society for Indexing, she served the organization for five years as the Editor of the quarterly journal, "Keywords." She has also written book reviews for the New York Journal of Books and her reviews can be found on their website: www.nyjournalofbooks.com. She is a freelance editor and has been providing editorial assistance for 10 years. She edits fiction as well as nonfiction and many of her clients have gone on to publish - both traditionally and self-publish - their works. Judy is a past president of Eastern Shore Writers Association as well as Maryland Writers Association. She has taught Creative Writing at Chesapeake College and several arts organizations throughout the Delmarva Peninsula. She has presented workshops at Bay To Ocean Writers Conference, Harford County Writers Conference, and at numerous local and regional arts organizations. She has been a member of the BTO committee for 17 years and is currently the co-coordinator of future writers conference.