Breathing Life into Your Characters

Ballon, Rachel

ISBN 10: 1582971811 / ISBN 13: 9781582971810

Edité par Writers Digest Books, 2003

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Synopsis :

Create Convincing Characters That Readers?and Editors?Can't Resist!

It's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience?

How can you describe the feelings of a drug addict if you've never been one? How can you write about being a prisoner if you've never been to jail? You can do all the research you want, but the question still remains: How do you convincingly portray characters if you've never lived in their skin?

In Breathing Life Into Your Characters, writing consultant and professional psychotherapist Rachel Ballon, Ph. D., shows you how to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings necessary to truly understand your characters?no matter what their background or life experiences. She'll show you how to:

• Develop a psychological profile for every character
• Turn archetypes into conflicted characters
• Think like a criminal to convincingly write one
• Reveal personalities through the use of nonverbal communication

In addition, you'll learn how to effectively use Ballon's "Method Writing" system?taught previously only in her writing workshops?to explore your own feelings, memories, and emotions to create characters of astonishing depth and complexity!

Présentation de l'éditeur: How do you write about characters who are nothing like you? If you haven't experienced what your characters have experienced, if you don't think the way they think, how do you successfully get inside their heads and portray them as real people whom readers would want to know? "Breathing Life Into Your Characters" has the answers to these questions. Author and psychotherapist Rachel Ballon shows you how to mine your characters' backstories; use transactional analysis for more complex characters; understand the correlation between needs, motivation and emotions; create characters different from yourself; understand a character's internal and external struggles; provide your character with an emotional transformation; understand the influence of a dysfunctional family dynamic; unravel natural defensive mechanisms; and, much, much more.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Breathing Life into Your Characters
Éditeur : Writers Digest Books
Date d'édition : 2003
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Very Good