Holly Lisle's Create a Character Clinic
Pages: 153
|Published: 1 Jan 2006
Description
Are you selling your fiction yet?
Editors reject most books because the characters fall flat. Full-time professional novelist Holly Lisle offers her method for creating and writing compelling fictional characters that sell to editors. . . and readers.
* What makes a character interesting (and what doesn't)
* Techniques for giving your characters compelling needs that resonate with readers
* How to use the seven critical areas of character development to prevent "cardboard characters" and address areas of your characters' lives you've never considered before
* Techniques for developing characters' individual voices
* Three ways of presenting your character, with proven techniques in each
* Fifteen deadly sins writers commit with their characters, and how you can avoid them -- or better yet, turn them to your advantage and use them to surprise, excite, and delight your readers
Editors reject most books because the characters fall flat. Full-time professional novelist Holly Lisle offers her method for creating and writing compelling fictional characters that sell to editors. . . and readers.
* What makes a character interesting (and what doesn't)
* Techniques for giving your characters compelling needs that resonate with readers
* How to use the seven critical areas of character development to prevent "cardboard characters" and address areas of your characters' lives you've never considered before
* Techniques for developing characters' individual voices
* Three ways of presenting your character, with proven techniques in each
* Fifteen deadly sins writers commit with their characters, and how you can avoid them -- or better yet, turn them to your advantage and use them to surprise, excite, and delight your readers
