45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters

10 best books like 45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters (Victoria Lynn Schmidt): The Truth About Magic, Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, Story Engineering: Character Development, Story Concept, Scene Construction, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success, Characters and Viewpoint, Scene & Structure, The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types

The Truth About Magic
AuthorAtticus Poetry
ISBN1250232813
From the internationally bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars and Love Her Wild, Instagram sensation Atticus returns with another romantic and deeply moving collection.

The Truth About Magic builds on the pains and joys of romance explored in Love Her Wild and the New York Times bestseller,...
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
AuthorBlake Snyder
ISBN1932907009
This book is often hyped as the bible of screenwriting, but I would take it a step further and call it the definitive go-to for all storytelling. Trade secrets are fully revealed and once you read them you can't watch a movie without seeing the formula scroll right in front of your eyes. Exactly--to the...
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
AuthorJames Scott Bell
Craft an Engaging Plot

How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course?

With "Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure," you'll discover the answers...
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
AuthorNoah Lukeman
The First Five Pages

Editors always tell novice writers that the first few pages of a manuscript are crucial in the publishing process -- and it's true. If an editor or agent (or reader) loses interest after a page or two, you've lost him or her completely, even if the middle of your novel is brilliant...
AuthorNancy Kress
Get your stories off to a roaring start. Keep them tight and crisp throughout. Conclude them with a wallop.

Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?

Translating...
Story Engineering: Character Development, Story Concept, Scene Construction
AuthorLarry Brooks
ISBN1582979987
I went into this book having read the other reviews, so I knew what I was getting. I agree whole-heartedly with a number of things other people have said:

~It drowns itself in metaphors and analogies.

~The author comes off as being hugely egotistical.

~The first 10 -15 % of the...
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success
AuthorK.M. Weiland
ISBN0978924622
Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly wielded, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer’s arsenal. Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success will:

Help you choose the right type of outline for you
Guide...
AuthorOrson Scott Card
Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made.

This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your memory, your imagination and your soul.

Award-winning...
AuthorJack M. Bickham
ISBN0898799066
Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability. An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..."

And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer structures...
AuthorLinda N. Edelstein
This was a good idea but completely useless. Nothing went into enough depth to be useful, but the biggest problem is that although it was written in 1999, most of the sources used were already out of date and obsolete then. She uses Masters & Johnson from the 60's for information about homsexuality....
AuthorGloria Kempton
ISBN1582972893
Craft Compelling Dialogue

When should your character talk, what should (or shouldn't) he say, and when should he say it? How do you know when dialogue—or the lack thereof—is dragging down your scene? How do you fix character who speaks with the laconic wit of the Terminator?

Write...
AuthorRonald B. Tobias
ISBN1582972397
Give your story a solid foundation - a plot that engages readers from start to finish! The best stories linger in the hearts and minds of readers for decades. These tales gain their power through plots that connect with the audience on both an emotional and intellectual level.Inside, Ronald B. Tobias...
Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing
AuthorLibbie Hawker
This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B00UKC0GHA

When it comes to writing books, are you a “plotter” or a “pantser?” Is one method really better than the other?

In this instructional ebook, author Libbie Hawker explains the benefits and technique of planning a story...
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