By SYD FIELD
Henry James, the great American novelist, in an essay entitled The Art of Fiction, asks a rhetorical question about the nature of character: “What is character,” he writes, “but the determination of incident. And what is incident but the illumination of character.” The key word of course, is “incident;” what the dictionary defines as “A specific occurrence or event that occurs in connection or relationship to something else.”More by Syd Field at StoryLink.com
