Title: Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0898798159
ISBN 13: 9780898798159
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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In this guide, award-winning author Nancy Kress explores the crucial relationship between characterization and plot, illustrating how vibrant, well-constructed characters act as the driving force behind an exceptional story. In teaching writers the fundamentals of creating characters that will keep their readers spellbound, Kress utilizes: * Dozens of excerpts from well-known fiction * Enlightening exercises to help writers build strong characters starting from the outside-in * Beginning chapters that focus on the physical elements that comprise a character, providing techniques for using external qualities to reflect personality Building skill upon skill, writers blend these qualities with emotional and mental characterization, forming multidimensional characters that initiate exciting action, react to tense situations and power the plot from beginning to end.

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Nancy Kress is the author of a number of books of fiction, which have won many awards.

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