Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV

Former non-public investigator and New York Instances notable writer David Corbett gives a novel and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the web page and linger in reminiscence. Corbett offers an ingenious, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the weather of characterization-from preliminary inspiration to realization-with particular insights into the facility of secrets and techniques and contradictions, the embodiment of roles, managing the “tyranny of motive,” and mastering essential strategies required for memorable dialogue and unforgettable scenes. It is a how-to information for each aspiring and achieved writers that renders all different books of its form out of date.