Full name: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Author: Dwight V. Swain Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780806139180 0806139188

A jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional characters Vibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us want to continue reading a novel or finish watching a movie. In Creating Characters, Dwight V. Swain shows how writers can invent interesting characters and improve them so that they move a story along. "The core of character," he says in chapter 1, "lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly, that something is important." Building on that foundation--the capacity to care--Swain takes the would-be writer step-by-step through the fundamentals of finding and developing "characters who turn you on." This basic but thought-provoking how-to is a valuable tool for both the novice and the seasoned writer. Similar books: Between the Lines by Jessica Morrell Manuscript Makeover by Elizabeth Lyon Writing the Novel by Lawrence Block Master Class in Fiction Writing by Adam Sexton Escaping Into the Open by Elizabeth Berg Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight Bullies, Bastards And Bitches by Jessica Morrell The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain Thunder and Lightning by Natalie Goldberg Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See The Lie That Tells a Truth by John Dufresne How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark The Career Novelist by Donald Maass Conflict, Action and Suspense by William Noble Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular by L. Rust Hills Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing by Zachary Petit Story Engineering by Larry Brooks