Creating Characters: How to Build Story People
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Published by Writers Digest Books, 1994
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- Title
- Creating Characters: How to Build Story People
- Author
- Swain, Dwight V.
- Publisher
- Writers Digest Books
- Publication year
- 1994
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0898796628
- ISBN 13
- 9780898796629
The basics and fine points of successful fictional characters: traits, relationships, motivations, emotions, humor, strong dialog, and -- above all -- the ability to care. A first-class lesson in empathy and believability for all writers.
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Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays. For more than twenty years he taught in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. His popular books, Techniques of the Selling Writer and Creating Characters: How to Build Story People are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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