Book description
In this guide, award-winning author Nancy Kress explores the crucial
relationship between characterization and plot, illustrating how
vibrant, well-constructed characters act as the driving force behind an
exceptional story.
In teaching you the fundamentals of creating characters that will
keep your readers spellbound, Kress utilizes:
Dozens of excerpts from well-known fiction
Enlightening exercises to help you build strong characters
starting from the outside-in
Beginning chapters that focus on the physical elements that
comprise a character, providing techniques for using external
qualities to reflect personality
Building skill upon skill, you blend these qualities with emotional
and mental characterization, forming muti-dimensional characters that
initiate exciting action, react to tense situations, and power the
plot from beginning to end.
In this guide, award-winning author Nancy Kress explores
the crucial relationship between characterization and plot,
illustrating how vibrant, well-constructed characters act as the
driving force behind an exceptional story.
In teaching you the fundamentals of creating characters that will
keep your readers spellbound, Kress utilizes:
Dozens of excerpts from well-known fiction
Enlightening exercises to help you build strong characters
starting from the outside-in
Beginning chapters that focus on the physical elements that
comprise a character, providing techniques for using external
qualities to reflect personality
Building skill upon skill, you blend these qualities with emotional
and mental characterization, forming muti-dimensional characters that
initiate exciting action, react to tense situations, and power the
plot from beginning to end.
