The Writer’s Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters
- ISBN-10
- 1582970270
- ISBN-13
- 9781582970271
- Category
- Reference / Writing Skills
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-10-15
- Publisher
- F+W Media
- Author
- Marc McCutcheon
Description
Using this reference, readers can create characters who think, hope, love, cry, cause or feel pain, save the day - and seize readers by emotion. Mark McCutcheon eases the process of building convincing characters for stories and novels. He starts by conducting an inspiring and informative roundtable where six novelists reveal their approaches to characterization. Next, he provides a character questionnaire more detailed than the nosiest survey. Readers will fill it out and they'll know fictional people as though they'd grown up with them. Finally, there is a thesaurus of human characteristics - physical and psychological. Fit them together artfully and characters will climb right off the page.
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