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Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated

10 best books like Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated (Nancy Kress): The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life, Scene & Structure, Description, Bullies, Bastards and Bitches: How to Write the Bad Guys of Fiction, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed, Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines: Sixteen Master Archetypes, Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively, Story Structure Architect, The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types, What Would Your Character Do?

The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life
AuthorNoah Lukeman
ISBN0312309287
As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building...
Scene & Structure
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...
Description
AuthorMonica Wood
ISBN0898799082
Description is most powerful when it's visible, aural, tactile. Make your descriptions fresh and they'll move your story forward, imbue your work with atmosphere, create that tang of feeling that editors cry for and readers crave.

Monica Wood helps you squeeze the greatest flavor from the...
Bullies, Bastards and Bitches: How to Write the Bad Guys of Fiction
AuthorJessica Page Morrell
ISBN1582974845
Get to Know Your Character's Sinister Side
A truly memorable antagonist is not a one-dimensional super villain bent on world domination for no particular reason. Realistic, credible bad guys create essential story complications, personalize conflict, add immediacy to a story line, and force...
Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed
AuthorDonald Maass
Make Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd!

Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again! His previous book, "Writing the Breakout Novel," offered novelists of all skill levels and genres insider advice on how to make their books rise above the competition and succeed in a crowded...
Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines: Sixteen Master Archetypes
AuthorTami D. Cowden
ISBN1580650244
". . . we explain these sixteen archetypes, show ways to use archetypal characters in fiction writing and explore how the archetypes interact with each other." (p. xii)

This quote expresses what this broad analysis of character archetypes (eight male and eight female) is about in this book....
Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively
AuthorRebecca McClanahan
ISBN1582970254
Let Rebecca McClanahan guide you through an inspiring examination of description in its many forms. With her thoughtful instruction and engaging exercises, you'll learn to develop your senses and powers of observation to uncover the rich, evocative words that accurately portray your mind's images....
Story Structure Architect
AuthorVictoria Lynn Schmidt
ISBN1582973253
Build a timeless, original story using hundreds of classic story motifs!

It's been said that there are no new ideas; but there are proven ideas that have worked again and again for all writers for hundreds of years.

Story Structure Architect is your comprehensive reference to the...
The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types
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....
What Would Your Character Do?
AuthorEric Maisel
ISBN1582973725
Get Inside Your Character's HeadJust how well do you know your characters?

Test yourself–and your characters–with 30 interactive pop quizzes designed to help you discover exactly what makes your characters tick.

Noted author Eric Maisel draws on his technical knowledge...
Plot
AuthorAnsen Dibell
ISBN0898799465
"There are ways to create, fix, steer and discover plots--ways which, over a writing life, you'd eventually puzzle out for yourself," writes Ansen Dibell. "They aren't laws. They're an array of choices, things to try, once you've put a name to the particular problem you're facing now."

That's...
Description & Setting
AuthorRon Rozelle
Build a Believable World

How essential is setting to a story? How much description is too much? In what ways do details and setting tie into plot and character development? How can you use setting and description to add depth to your story?

You can find all the answers you need in Write...
Plot Versus Character: A Balanced Approach to Writing Great Fiction
AuthorJeff Gerke
ISBN1582979928
What's more important to a story: a gripping plot or compelling characters? Literary-minded novelists argue in favor of character-based novels while commercial novelists argue in favor of plot-based stories, but the truth of the matter is this: The best fiction is rich in both.
Enter Plot Versus...
Conflict, Action and Suspense
AuthorWilliam Noble
ISBN0898799074
What makes a book a page-turner? How do you grab your readers from the start and hold them through the last sentence? How do you make your plot twist and turn and keep the action moving without losing continuity?You do it by generating drama and developing it using conflict, action and suspense. You make...
Breathing Life Into Your Characters: How to Give Your Characters Emotional & Psychological Depth
AuthorRachel Ballon
ISBN1582971811
Uggg, this is going to be hard to review.

I do not want to be overly hard on this, but I really cannot give this book anything above "it was ok" for a rating. It really proved to be of limited value for the purpose I was reading it (attempting to add depth to Non-Player Characters in a role play game),...
Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors
AuthorBrandilyn Collins
ISBN0471058947
Proven techniques for creating vivid, believable characters

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...
Creating Character Emotions
AuthorAnn Hood
ISBN1884910335
Sweaty palms. Butterflies in the stomach. Pacing back and forth. There is no doubt this character is nervous. But isn't there a more original, more vivid way to express this emotion? Absolutely. In this unique book, Ann Hood will help you find fresh, creative images, words and gestures to evoke feelings...
Writing Dialogue
AuthorTom Chiarella
ISBN1884910327
Characters need to speak to each other. Tom Chiarella shows you how. Whether it's an argument, a love scene, a powwow among sixth graders or scientists in a lab, this book demonstrates how to write dialogue that sounds authentic and original. You'll learn ways to find ideas for literary discussions...
Dialogue: Techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue
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...
Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time
AuthorJordan E. Rosenfeld
ISBN1582974799
Bottom line, Rosenfeld covers scene structure, scene types, and everything that goes in to a scene.

Specifically, she covers:
The Architecture of a Scene--Beginnings (Launches), Middles and Ends
Core Elements--Setting, Senses, Character, Plot, etc.
Scene Types--First...
The Writer's Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters
AuthorMarc Mucutcheon
ISBN1582970270
Using this reference, readers can create characters who think, hope, love, cry, cause or feel pain, save the day - and seize readers by emotion. Mark McCutcheon eases the process of building convincing characters for stories and novels. He starts by conducting an inspiring and informative roundtable...
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