A well-rounded character can make book, while a wooden character who operates like a robot can break it. Plots may make the story move, but characters make the story come alive. 

How would you like to develop characters who leap off the page?  Would you like to give your characters depth so that readers remembers them long after they put the book down? Want to get to know what makes your characters tick so that you can turn them into real flesh and blood heroes and heroines?

 This book may be your answer!

 It will teach you how to make every character in your book a living, breathing person.  Discover how you can turn your hero and heroine from wooden figures into life-like people who will make your readers respond to them and remember them.  They may not always love them, but they won't forget the characters you build. 

 In simple, easy steps this valuable writer's resource provides all the necessary information and useful tools that will help you each time you tackle the problem of creating a new character--whether it be your heroine, hero or the villain.

  Using well-known characters from books and movies, the authors illustrate how you can build your characters one step at a time and give them a style that is uniquely their own.  Learn how to give characters a rich background when developing backstory, how to make them unique and how to build their strengths and vulnerabilities so that your readers truly care about them.

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The book is written by four experienced writers who have a combined total of more than 50 years of writing experience and more than two dozen novels.  Their thought when they started was:  "I wish I'd known that when I started out."

   Available Now from Watson Guptill Publishing. 

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ISBN 1-58065-068-6