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Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated Paperback - 2004
by Kress, Nancy
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- Title Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated
- Author Kress, Nancy
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-1582973199
- ISBN 9781582973197 / 1582973199
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.78 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.98 cm)
- Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97050356
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.397
- Quantity available 1
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Summary
In teaching writers the fundamentals of creating characters that will keep their readers spellbound, Kress utilizes dozens of excerpts from well-known fiction, along with enlightening exercises. 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 you the fundamentals of creating characters that will keep your readers spellbound, Kress utilizes:Dozens of excerpts from well-known fictionEnlightening exercises to help you build strong characters starting from the outside-inBeginning chapters that focus on the physical elements that comprise a character, providing techniques for using external qualities to reflect personalityBuilding skill upon skill, you blend these qualities with emotional and mental characterization, forming muti-dimensional characters that initiate exciting action, react to tense situations, and power the plot from beginning to end.
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