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Characters: Creating Heroes, Villains, Mentors, Sidekicks, and Other Characters for Your Story (The Writing Code Series Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Charles Euchner (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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“Plot," Ray Branbury once said, "is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

Welcome to the Essential Guide for Creating Memorable Characters—and Getting Them To Write Your Story

Everyone knows that stories are only as good as their characters. When readers fall in love with your story’s hero—or hate the lead character—you can create stories that take the reader wherever you want to go. You can create not only a great story or novel… but also long-running series that captivate people forever.

Now, in this Elements of Writing “Mini,” you can get the lowdown on how to get the lowdown on sizzling, compelling characters for your story.

Because here’s the deal: When you create a great character, the character almost writes the story. Sure, you need to understand the basic structure of narrative. We’ve got you covered for that too, in Storytelling: How to Create Powerful Plots To Give Your Readers a Memorable Journey.

In this brief guide, Charles Euchner shows how to create three-dimensional characters who create a whole, captivating world.

Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction—whether you want to produce short pieces or whole books or even series—this is the place to get started. You will learn how to:
  1. Compile dossiers for your characters

  • Explore Characters’ Lives, Zone by Zone

  • Find Your Characters’ Throughlines

  • Use the Wheel of Archetypes

  • Spin the Wheel of Archetypes

  • Assess Your Characters’ Energy and Love of Life

  • Wrap Your Characters in a SCARF


Each chapter includes case studies—showing how masters of the craft apply these skills—as wella s exercises for you to practice your new skill in your own projects.

About the author

Charles Euchner is the author of books on civil rights, baseball, politics, public policy, and writing. Now teaching writing at Columbia University, Euchner ahs been the director of the Rappaport Institute at Harvard University and the coordinator of a longterm planning initiative for the City of Boston. He was educated at Vanderbilt University and the Johns Hopkins University.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0096SDTJG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The New American Press (September 5, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1593 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 72 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Brandon "Kanubu" Pervis
5.0 out of 5 stars Character is king
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This is a great book on character and how to make their inner dynamics shine through the pages. I enjoyed how it not only provides great examples of the various techniques kid writing dynamic characters but also gives car studies and examples to help you apply to your own characters. Thank you
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Chubby Builder
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Straight forward and simple. I bought or borrowed every one of this guys books after the first one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The bad guy is ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2016
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Good coverage of the subject. Can't have a story without characters that pull you in.
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Carla Oliveira
5.0 out of 5 stars very goood
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2014
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a book of great help, recommend to all writers. helped me a lot. very well written and easy interpretation. excellent!!
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S.Write
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Insightful.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2016
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There are many books on writing that just blag on and on leaving you with only 2 or 3 pieces of valuable information to take away. However, this book is full of Insightful information and manages to cover alot of things in just a few pages.
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