Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors - Softcover

Collins, Brandilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692438874 ISBN 13: 9780692438879

Publisher: Challow Press, 2015

Synopsis

EDITION 2: Revised with some new material gathered through 13 years of teaching these concepts at writers conferences.Want to bring characters to life on the page as vividly as fine actors do on the stage or screen? Getting Into Character will give you a whole new way of thinking about your writing. Drawing on the Method Acting theory that theater professionals have used for decades, this in-depth guide explains seven characterization techniques and adapts them for the novelist’s use. You’ll discover concepts that will lead you to understand and communicate the motivation and psychology of all your characters. These highly effective techniques will help you: ~ create characters whose distinctive traits become plot components ~ determine each character’s specific objectives and motivations ~ write natural, meaningful dialogue that moves the story forward ~ endow your characters with three-dimensional emotional lives ~ use character motivation to bring action sequences to exuberant life ~ write convincingly about any character facing any circumstance

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About the Author

BRANDILYN COLLINS, an award-winning and bestselling novelist of 30 books, is known for her fast-paced, twisting Seatbelt Suspense®, and her insightful contemporary novels. She is a popular keynote speaker and teacher at writers conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Challow Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692438874
• ISBN 13: 9780692438879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 239