Careers for Your Characters
Subtitle: A Writers Guide to 101 Professions from Architect to Zookeeper
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781582970837
Subjects: Creative writing guides; Reference; Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Writing Skills; Characters and characteristics in literature; Characters and characteristics; Occupations in literature
First sentence: The world of advertising has been a popular fiction setting for several reasons: (1) It's cutthroat, so there's lots of plot and character conflict, (2) many writers (such as Elmore Leonard and James Patterson) received their training in advertising, so it's a world they know a lot about, (3) there's much creative activity, which makes it natural to reveal the creative side of a character, (4) the stakes, in terms of money and career, are high, and (5) built into the business is the age-old theme of commerce vs. art.