Nancy Kress

Dynamic Characters

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A truly unforgettable story is defined by its characters. Their motivations, their changes, their actions compel us to read on, anxiously trying to discern what will happen next.
In Dynamic Characters, award-winning author and Writer's Digest columnist Nancy Kress explores the fundamental relationship between characterization and plot, illustrating how vibrant, well-constructed characters act as the driving force behind an exceptional story.
Kress balances her writing instruction with hands-on checklists to help you build strong characters from the outside in. Blending physical, emotional and mental characterization, you'll learn to create characters that initiate exciting action, react to tense situations, make physical and emotional transformations, and power the plot from beginning to end.
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321 printed pages
Original publication
2004
Publication year
2004
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  • zavrik007shared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
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    Very important book for everyone who decided to write his own story. There are a lot of interesting information, examples and suggestions how to create a vivid character.

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  • zavrik007has quoted6 years ago
    Admire your heroes, but hold yourself back from the kind of dazzled love that blurs perspective. You're a writer, not an acolyte.
  • zavrik007has quoted6 years ago
    Theme is how much order, how stringently, you've imposed on your fictional universe. It's also what kind of order: happy, malevolent, despairing, random, hidden-but-there, etc. What do you want your fictional world to say about the real world?
  • zavrik007has quoted6 years ago
    Man Learns Better,” which is the inverse of the second plot. In this, the protagonist does something, or observes something done, that leaves him “sadder but wiser.” He loses, but he (and the reader) learn something about how the world works.

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