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    Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint

    By Nancy Kress

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    Create Complex Characters

    How do you create a main character readers won't forget? How do you write a book in multiple-third-person point of view without confusing your readers (or yourself)? How do you plant essential information about a character's past into a story?

    Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by award-winning author Nancy Kress answers all of these questions and more! This accessible book is filled with interactive exercises and valuable advice that teaches you how to:

    • Choose and execute the best point of view for your story
    • Create three-dimensional and believable characters
    • Develop your characters' emotions
    • Create realistic love, fight, and death scenes
    • Use frustration to motivate your characters and drive your story

    With dozens of excerpts from some of today's most popular writers, Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint provides you with the techniques you need to create characters and stories sure to linger in the hearts and minds of agents, editors, and readers long after they've finished your book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateMar 3, 2005
    ISBN9781582976815
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    Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint
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    Nancy Kress

    DAVID BRIN has written or contributed to a dozen works of fiction and science fiction, has a Ph.D in astrophysics, and has been a professor and a NASA consultant.NANCY KRESS is the author of fourteen books of fantasy and science fiction, including both novels and short-story collections.

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