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Write Characters Your Readers Won't Forget: A Toolkit for Emerging Writers
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Series: The Litore Toolkits for Fiction Writers, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781942458050
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 2 2015
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I just don't care enough about your character.
Write Characters Your Readers Won't Forget is a toolkit for addressing that issue. Packed with 30 exercises, abundant examples, and practical strategies, this guidebook will help you write unforgettable characters who come alive on the page, create compelling dialogue, and chart a more breathtaking emotional journeys for your characters.
Stant Litore is the author of The Ansible Stories, The Zombie Bible, The Running of the Tyrannosaurs, and Dante's Heart. Best known for his weird fiction, alternate history, and scifi, he has taught frequent courses for writers across the genres and has served as a developmental editor for Westmarch Publishing. His own fiction has been acclaimed by NPR, has served as the subject of scholarly work in Relegere and Weird Fiction Review, and he has been hailed as SF's premier poet of loneliness. He lives in Colorado with his wife and two daughters, and is working on his next book.
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