Archetypes for Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archetypes for Writers write by Jennifer Van Bergen. This book was released on 2007. Archetypes for Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on her years of training in theater and decades of teaching, Van Bergen unveils the secret of using your own archetypes to find and develop already-existing characters. This approach has little to do with how to ""create"" characters or plot stories. Rather, is is more about how to find your characters and story archetypes, or even how to have them find you - using specific skills taught in the book.
A Writer's Guide to Characterization
A Writer's Guide to Characterization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Writer's Guide to Characterization write by Victoria Lynn Schmidt. This book was released on 2012-07-30. A Writer's Guide to Characterization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Develop compelling character arcs using the power of myth! In the best novels, characters undergo dramatic changes that keep readers turning pages. A Writer's Guide to Characterization shows you how to develop such meaningful character arcs in your own work--stories of transformation that will resonate with readers long after the story ends. In this comprehensive guide, author Victoria Lynn Schmidt examines cross-cultural archetypes to illustrate how they can make your work more powerful and compelling. Plus, you'll learn how to draw from Jungian psychology to add complexity and believability to your characters. Schmidt also provides: • 40 lessons on character development (with examples from well-known films and novels) that you can apply to your own work • Questionnaires and exercises to help you select male and female archetypes and adapt them to your story • 15 classic animal archetypes (including the coyote, snake, tiger, and butterfly) you can use to build convincing character profiles With A Writer's Guide to Characterization, you'll have the information you need to infuse the development of your characters with drama and authenticity.
The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines
The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines write by Tami D. Cowden. This book was released on 2013-10. The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: Hollywood, CA: Lone Eagle Pub., c2000.
Making Shapely Fiction
Making Shapely Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Shapely Fiction write by Jerome Stern. This book was released on 2011-04-11. Making Shapely Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.
The Seven Basic Plots
The Seven Basic Plots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Seven Basic Plots write by Christopher Booker. This book was released on 2005-11-11. The Seven Basic Plots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
