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Creating Unforgetable Characters
author:Linda Seger
price: $11.20
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I found this book delightful, practical and extremely useful. Not only was it very readable, but it will be a resource I'm sure I will turn to again and again whenever I'm stuck with a character that just won't move. I'm delighted to have found this book, and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for something to have on the shelf for those days when your story seems to have stopped dead in its tracks. Linda Seger will get you going again, and you'll have fun at the same time!
This book is geared mainly for screenwriting, but it can be useful for novelists and short story writers as well. Linda Seger discusses character backstory, relationships with supporting characters, dialogue, and so on. Plus, there are interviews with today's leading writers across the spectrum. Her narrative is clear and easy to understand, with plenty of examples of both good and bad writing. Even though I'm not a screenwriter, I found this book very useful and entertaining.
Thankyou for this book. I am a screen and television writer. In the last six months it has been an enormous pleasure to first discover Linda Segers books and then to sit under her teaching in person and hear her lecture this past Feb. in Toronto, Ont. when she taught at the Guilds. Her insights, intuitive nature, her ability and grasp of story ..both through book and in person is a highly trained gift and a guide to those of us finding our way in the world of story. I strongly recommend any work she does in book form or lecture and look forward to reading more from her.
Dr. Seger's book focuses on one of the most enjoyable and also one of the most difficult jobs of a storyteller: creating strong, believable, "one of a kind" characters. She shows you how to avoid the pitfalls of stereotyping, how to make even minor characters interesting, and how to add believable complexity. I think any writer who works with original characters would benefit from this book. Dr. Seger gives clear examples and is easy to understand without talking down to the reader. It is the kind of book you find yourself using over and over.
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