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| Introduction: Who are These People, and Who Needs Them? | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Creating Strong and Believable Characters: The Externals | 7 |
| Ch. 1 | Beauty and/or the Beast: Choosing Descriptive Details | 8 |
| Ch. 2 | What's in a Name?: Using Monikers to Convey Character | 19 |
| Ch. 3 | Zip Code, Please: The Role of Setting in Creating Character | 24 |
| Ch. 4 | What Did You Say You Do?: Using the World of Work to Enhance Characterization | 35 |
| Ch. 5 | Say What?: Characterizing Through Dialogue | 45 |
| Ch. 6 | The Artful Deception: Making Dialogue Read Naturally (Even Though It's Not Natural) | 54 |
| Ch. 7 | When Less is more: Pruning Character Descriptors to a Manageable Number | 66 |
| Ch. 8 | Don't I Know You?: Basing Characters on Real People | 74 |
| Pt. 2 | Creating Strong and Believable Characters: The Internals | 82 |
| Ch. 9 | She's Got an Attitude: Using Personal Thoughts to Characterize | 83 |
| Ch. 10 | Lost in thought: Making Clear What, When and How Your Character Is Thinking | 90 |
| Ch. 11 | The Pygmalion Trap: How to Not Let Your Assumptions Torpedo Characterization | 99 |
| Ch. 12 | Airy Dreams and Solid News: How to Use Dreams and Newscasts to Enhance Characterization | 107 |
| Ch. 13 | The Bad Guys: How to Make Your Villains As Readable As Your Heroes | 122 |
| Ch. 14 | Do I Want to Know You?: How to Create an Unsympathetic Protagonist Without Driving Your Readers Away | 132 |
| Ch. 15 | The Intelligence Dossier: A Wrap-Up System for Investigating Your Character | 139 |
| Pt. 3 | Character and Plot | 157 |
| Ch. 16 | The Yellow Brick Road: How to Start Anywhere and Arrive at Plot | 158 |
| Ch. 17 | Fight! Fight! Fight! When Conflict Leads to Violence | 168 |
| Ch. 18 | Whose Story Is It, Anyway? How Point of View Begins With Character and Leads to Plot | 175 |
| Ch. 19 | Also Featuring ...: Secondary Characters and Plot Construction | 182 |
| Ch. 20 | The Characters, They Are A-Changing: How to Make Character Change a Strong Element of Plot | 197 |
| Ch. 21 | Seeing Is Believing: A Concrete Example of How Character, Change and Plot Intertwine | 205 |
| Ch. 22 | "... But it Really Happened!": Basing Plots on Real-Life Events | 219 |
| Ch. 23 | Archetypal Attractions: Using Rich Old Plots in Rich New Ways | 225 |
| Ch. 24 | I See a Pattern Emerging: The Connections Among Characters, Plot and Theme | 247 |
| Ch. 25 | The Characters and the Writer | 254 |
| Index | 263 |
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Jony Sam
reviewed Dynamic Characters on September 24, 2010 Dynamic Characters
Nancy Kress does an outstanding job outlining all the elements that contribute to creating believable 3 dimensional characters, elaborating on them, and tying them all together.
The book covers topics such as:
- the definition and purpose of characters
- the influence of setting on characterization
- defying characters through dialogue
- naming characters
- how plot affects characterization
- growth and transformation in characters
- setting up protagonist, antagonist, other secondary characters
- and much more.
I must say after hours of researching the topic both in the book stores and on the web, I found this book to be one of the best resources.
While many references purely state facts, Kress takes the time and effort to explain them and shows in a very clear, understandable manner, how certain small choices we make about our characters can make a huge impact on how the readers will perceive them.
A must read for every aspiring fiction writer out there.
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