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Dynamic characters : how to create personalities that keep readers captivated
Kress, Nancy.
Adult Nonfiction 808.3 K
Kress, Nancy.
Adult Nonfiction 808.3 K
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| Contents | Page |
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| Introduction: Who Are These People, and Who Needs Them? | p. 1 |
| Part 1 - Creating Strong and Believable Characters: The Externals | p. 7 |
| Chapter 1 - Beauty and/or the Beast: Choosing Descriptive Details | p. 8 |
| Chapter 2 - What's in a Name? Using Monikers to Convey Character | p. 19 |
| Chapter 3 - Zip Code, Please: The Role of Setting in Creating Character | p. 24 |
| Chapter 4 - What Did You Say You Do? Using the World of Work to Enhance Characterization | p. 35 |
| Chapter 5 - Say What? Characterizing Through Dialogue | p. 45 |
| Chapter 6 - The Artful Deception: Making Dialogue Read Naturally (Even Though It's Not Natural) | p. 54 |
| Chapter 7 - When Less is More: Pruning Character Descriptors to a Manageable Number | p. 66 |
| Chapter 8 - Don't I Know You? Basing Characters on Real People | p. 74 |
| Part 2 - Creating Strong and Believable Characters: The Internals | p. 82 |
| Chapter 9 - She's Got an Attitude: Using Personal Thoughts to Characterize | p. 83 |
| Chapter 10 - Lost in Thought: Making Clear What, When and How Your Character Is Thinking | p. 90 |
| Chapter 11 - The Pygmalion Trap: How to Not Let Your Assumptions Torpedo Characterization | p. 99 |
| Chapter 12 - Airy Dreams and Solid News: How to Use Dreams and Newscasts to Enhance Characterization | p. 107 |
| Chapter 13 - The Bad Guys: How to Make Your Villains As Readable As Your Heroes | p. 122 |
| Chapter 14 - Do I Want to Know You? How to Create an Unsympathetic Protagonist Without Driving Your Readers Away | p. 132 |
| Chapter 15 - The Intelligence Dossier: A Wrap-Up System for Investigating Your Character | p. 139 |
| Part 3 - Character and Plot | p. 157 |
| Chapter 16 - The Yellow Brick Road: How to Start Anywhere and Arrive at Plot | p. 158 |
| Chapter 17 - Fight! Fight! Fight! When Conflict Leads to Violence | p. 168 |
| Chapter 18 - Whose Story Is It, Anyway? How Point of View Begins With Character and Leads to Plot | p. 175 |
| Chapter 19 - Also Featuring ... Secondary Characters and Plot Construction | p. 182 |
| Chapter 20 - The Characters, They Are A-Changing: How to Make Character Change a Strong Element of Plot | p. 197 |
| Chapter 21 - Seeing Is Believing: A Concrete Example of How Character, Change and Plot Intertwine | p. 205 |
| Chapter 22 - "... But It Really Happened!" Basing Plots on Real-Life Events | p. 219 |
| Chapter 23 - Archetypal Attractions: Using Rich Old Plots in Rich New Ways | p. 225 |
| Chapter 24 - I See a Pattern Emerging: The Connections Among Characters, Plot and Theme | p. 247 |
| Chapter 25 - The Characters and the Writer | p. 254 |
| Index | p. 263 |
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