num_pages: 304
description: Using this reference, readers can create characters who think, hope, love, cry, cause or feel pain, save the day - and seize readers by emotion. Mark McCutcheon eases the process of building convincing characters for stories and novels. He starts by conducting an inspiring and informative roundtable where six novelists reveal their approaches to characterization. Next, he provides a character questionnaire more detailed than the nosiest survey. Readers will fill it out and they'll know fictional people as though they'd grown up with them. Finally, there is a thesaurus of human characteristics - physical and psychological. Fit them together artfully and characters will climb right off the page.
language: English
title: The Writer's Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters
titlecomplete: The Writer's Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters
genres: Writing, Reference, Nonfiction, Self Help, Research
ratings_count: 205
publisher: Writer's Digest Books