The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types
10 best books like The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types (Linda N. Edelstein): The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, Becoming a Writer, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great, Characters and Viewpoint
| Author | Monica Wood |
| ISBN | 1582973229 |
Sparkling with delightful, witty, thought-provoking morsels for today's writers, Monica Wood's dreamy yet realistic writer's companion will encourage your muse to take flight. The stimulating visuals laced throughout the book uniquely capture the...
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
| Author | Chris Baty |
| ISBN | 0811845052 |
Let Chris Baty, founder of the rockin' literary marathon National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), guide you through four exciting weeks of...
Becoming a Writer
| Author | Dorothea Brande |
| ISBN | 0874771641 |
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
| Author | James Scott Bell |
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...
| Author | James N. Frey |
| ISBN | 0312010443 |
An...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
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...
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success
| Author | K.M. Weiland |
| ISBN | 0978924622 |
Help you choose the right type of outline for you
Guide...
| Author | Janet Burroway |
| ISBN | 0321277368 |
| Author | Donald Maass |
We've all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest altogether?
Something...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
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...
| Author | Jack Heffron |
It's a question and a quandary that bedevils every writer. And once you've got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts.
In The Writer's Idea Book, Jack Heffron, former senior editor...
| Author | Anne Bernays |
| ISBN | 0062720066 |
| Author | Victoria Lynn Schmidt |
| ISBN | 1582970696 |
| Author | James Scott Bell |
| ISBN | 1582975906 |
| Author | Gloria Kempton |
| ISBN | 1582972893 |
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...
| Author | Jordan E. Rosenfeld |
| ISBN | 1582974799 |
Specifically, she covers:
The Architecture of a Scene--Beginnings (Launches), Middles and Ends
Core Elements--Setting, Senses, Character, Plot, etc.
Scene Types--First...
| Author | Ronald B. Tobias |
| ISBN | 1582972397 |