Creating Characters: A Writer's Reference to the Personality Traits That Bring Fictional People to Life

by Howard Lauther

A frequent problem area for fiction writers is characterization. If writers jump headlong into a story with only a fuzzy notion about the people who are in it, the result is a collection of characters who are cliched, stereotypical and not very interesting. Creating Characters is an easy to use reference work that looks at character development from many different angles. The book does not tell writers how to write. Instead, it generates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786420316
• ISBN13: 9780786420315
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher