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Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

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A jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional characters

Vibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us want to continue reading a novel or finish watching a movie. In Creating Characters, Dwight V. Swain shows how writers can invent interesting characters and improve them so that they move a story along.

“The core of character,” he says in chapter 1, “lies in each individual story person’s ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly, that something is important.” Building on that foundation—the capacity to care—Swain takes the would-be writer step-by-step through the fundamentals of finding and developing “characters who turn you on.” This basic but thought-provoking how-to is a valuable tool for both the novice and the seasoned writer.


Request Code : ZLIBIO1152847
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Year:
1991
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Writer's Digest Books
Language:
English
Pages:
208
ISBN 13:
9780898794175
ISBN:
0-89879-417-X,9780898794175

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