Creating Compelling Characters From The Inside Out
(Writing As A Second Career Book 2)
Do Your Readers Care About Your Characters?
Are you striving to build three-dimensional characters readers will care about?
Do you fear your characters aren’t believable or will seem like cardboard cut-outs?
Do traditional character checklists, diagrams, and charts leave you feeling lost?
Explore creating characters from the inside: understanding the hopes, fears, and motivations that make them who they are.
Using questions and prompts designed to help you peer into your characters’ hearts and minds and examples from popular books and classics such as Gone Girl, The Dead Zone, and Pride and Prejudice, this book helps you create real, engaging characters that will keep readers turning pages.
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About the Author of Creating Compelling Characters
Author L. M. Lilly has written numerous books on writing craft and the writing life. She also hosts the Buffy and the Art of Story podcast and, under Lisa M. Lilly, is the author of the bestselling four-book Awakening supernatural thriller series, many short stories, and the Q.C. Davis mysteries. She also founded WritingAsASecondCareer.com.
Other Books in the Writing As A Second Career series include:
- The One-Year Novelist: A Week-By-Week Guide To Writing Your Novel In One Year
- Creating Compelling Characters From The Inside Out
- Super Simple Story Structure: A Quick Guide To Plotting & Writing Your Novel
- Happiness, Anxiety, and Writing: Using Your Creativity To Live A Calmer, Happier Life
- Write On: How To Overcome Writer’s Block So You Can Write Your Novel
- Fiction Writing As Your Second Career
- How To Write A Novel, Grades 6-8
- Buffy and the Art of Story Season One: Writing Better Fiction by Watching Buffy
- Buffy And The Art Of Story Season Two Part 1: Threats, Lies, and Surprises in Episodes 1-11
- Buffy And The Art Of Story Season Two Part 2: Episodes 12-22 – How to Write About Love, Pyrrhic Victory, and Betrayal