The Writer’s Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters
The Writer’s Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters by Marc McCutcheon is a comprehensive guide published by Writers Digest Books on October 15, 2000. This new edition spans 304 pages and is presented in English. The book serves as a resource for writers looking to create authentic characters that resonate with readers, offering insights into the emotional depth and complexity of fictional personas.
Readers will find a structured approach to characterization, beginning with a roundtable discussion featuring six novelists who share their techniques. The book includes an extensive character questionnaire designed to help writers develop their characters in detail, fostering a deeper understanding of their motivations and traits. Additionally, a thesaurus of human characteristics is provided, allowing writers to combine physical and psychological attributes effectively, ensuring that their characters feel real and relatable.
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Using this reference, readers can create characters who think, hope, love, cry, cause or feel pain, save the day – and seize readers by emotion. Mark McCutcheon eases the process of building convincing characters for stories and novels. He starts by conducting an inspiring and informative roundtable where six novelists reveal their approaches to characterization. Next, he provides a character questionnaire more detailed than the nosiest survey. Readers will fill it out and they’ll know fictional people as though they’d grown up with them. Finally, there is a thesaurus of human characteristics – physical and psychological. Fit them together artfully and characters will climb right off the page.
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