Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors

EDITION 2: Revised with some new material gathered through 13 years of teaching these concepts at writers...
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Author: Brandilyn Collins
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Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors by Collins, Brandilyn

Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors

CHF 26.28

Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors

CHF 26.28
Author: Brandilyn Collins
Format: Paperback
Language: English
EDITION 2: Revised with some new material gathered through 13 years of teaching these concepts at writers conferences.Want to bring characters to life on the page as vividly as fine actors do on the stage or screen? Getting Into Character will give you a whole new way of thinking about your writing. Drawing on the Method Acting theory that theater professionals have used for decades, this in-depth guide explains seven characterization techniques and adapts them for the novelist's use. You'll discover concepts that will lead you to understand and communicate the motivation and psychology of all your characters. These highly effective techniques will help you: create characters whose distinctive traits become plot components determine each character's specific objectives and motivations write natural, meaningful dialogue that moves the story forward endow your characters with three-dimensional emotional lives use character motivation to bring action sequences to exuberant life write convincingly about any character facing any circumstance

Author: Brandilyn Collins
Publisher: Challow Press
Published: 04/26/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780692438879

About the Author
BRANDILYN COLLINS, an award-winning and bestselling novelist of 30 books, is known for her fast-paced, twisting Seatbelt Suspense(R), and her insightful contemporary novels. She is a popular keynote speaker and teacher at writers conferences.


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