Full name: Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated

Author: Nancy Kress Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582973197 1582973199

A truly unforgettable story is defined by its characters. Their motivations, their changes, their actions compel us to read on, anxiously trying to discern what will happen next. In Dynamic Characters, award-winning author and Writer's Digest columnist Nancy Kress explores the fundamental relationship between characterization and plot, illustrating how vibrant, well-constructed characters act as the driving force behind an exceptional story. Kress balances her writing instruction with hands-on checklists to help you build strong characters from the outside in. Blending physical, emotional and mental characterization, you'll learn to create characters that initiate exciting action, react to tense situations, make physical and emotional transformations, and power the plot from beginning to end. Similar books: Conflict & Suspense by James Scott Bell Like Shaking Hands With God by Kurt Vonnegut How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II by James N. Frey Outlining Your Novel by K. M. Weiland Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern Dialogue by Lewis Turco Nail Your Novel by Roz Morris Sometimes the Magic Works by Terry Brooks How to Not Write Bad by Ben Yagoda Novelist's essential guide to crafting scenes by Raymond Obstfeld This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner Wired for Story by Lisa Cron You Can Write Children's Books by Tracey E. Dils The Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing by Zachary Petit Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain Story Engineering by Larry Brooks