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How to Create Fictional Characters

All the Essential Steps to Create Successful Fictional Characters

Jean Saunders

 ISBN: 1-902713-16-8 | Price: £7.99 | 170 pages | Softback 

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In this new addition to the Writers’ Bookshop series, successful romantic novelist Jean Saunders has defined all the necessary ingredients for creating successful characters. Starting with the most basic – choosing the right name – she shows you how to understand and get to know your characters, their conflicts, motivations and development. She then demonstrates the art of visual writing to get the most out of them, using worked examples from her own novels.

No one can write a successful novel without creating the right characters and this practical and easy guide shows you how to do so, step by step.

Key Points

• Achieving the human appeal

• Avoiding contrivances

• A character checklist

• Creating tension

• Testing the strength of your characters

Contents

First Things First / Voices And Dialogue / Heroes And Heroines / Enter The Villain / The Rest Of The Cast / Points Of View / Conflict And Motivation / Character Development / Visual Writing / Getting The Human Appeal / Children’s Fictional Characters / Summing Up

Author

Jean Saunders has written over 600 short stories and more than 100 novels of various types including sagas and crime. She writes under her own name, and as Rachel Moore, Rowena Summers and other pen names. She writes a regular column on short story writing for Writers’ News, and is in demand as a lecturer at conferences and on cruise ships. A past Chairman of the Romantic Novelists Association, Jean has been short-listed for the Romantics Novel of the Year Award, and she takes an active interest in everything to do with writing.

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