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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors

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

Collins, Brandilyn

Paperback

Writing Instruction

ISBN10: 0692438874
ISBN13: 9780692438879
Publisher: Challow Press
Published: Apr 26 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
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

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