Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Swain, Dwight V.

ISBN 10: 0806139188 / ISBN 13: 9780806139180

Editore: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008

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• Titolo: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People
• Editore: University of Oklahoma Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0806139188
• ISBN 13: 9780806139180
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Fair
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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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.

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A jargon-free manual on the basicas of developing interesting fictional characters