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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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