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Getting Into Character : Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors

by Brandilyn Collins
RM47.98 MYR Now RM25.67 MYR Save 46%
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Acting techniques for writers to bring characters alive

Getting Into Character could be a good read for writers who want to improve their fiction writing skills through acting techniques. This book is unique because it adapts Method Acting theory for novelists, and provides seven effective characterization techniques. The book also helps writers understand and communicate their characters' motivations and psychology, and write natural and meaningful dialogues that move the story forward. Overall, this book can help writers create more realistic and engaging characters, and improve their writing craft.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Getting Into Character : Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors

by Brandilyn Collins
RM47.98 MYR Now RM25.67 MYR Save 46%
ISBN: 9780692438879
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM124.14 MYR
Authors: Brandilyn Collins
Publisher: Challow Press
Date of Publication: 2015-04-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Business, Personal Development
Related Topics: Writing, Business, Crafts, Personal Development, Self Help, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 4.18
(rated by 501 readers)

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EDITION 2: Revised with some new material gathered through 13 years of teaching these concepts at writers conferences. ------------- Want to bring characters to life on the page as vividly as fine actors do on the stage or screen? Getting Into Character will give you a whole new way of thinking about your writing. Drawing on the Method Acting theory that theater professionals have used for decades, this in-depth guide explains seven characterization techniques and adapts them for the novelist's use. You'll discover concepts that will lead you to understand and communicate the motivation and psychology of all your characters. These highly effective techniques will help you: create characters whose distinctive traits become plot components determine each character's specific objectives and motivations write natural, meaningful dialogue that moves the story forward endow your characters with three-dimensional emotional lives use character motivation to bring action sequences to exuberant life write convincingly about any character facing any circumstance
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Acting techniques for writers to bring characters alive

Getting Into Character could be a good read for writers who want to improve their fiction writing skills through acting techniques. This book is unique because it adapts Method Acting theory for novelists, and provides seven effective characterization techniques. The book also helps writers understand and communicate their characters' motivations and psychology, and write natural and meaningful dialogues that move the story forward. Overall, this book can help writers create more realistic and engaging characters, and improve their writing craft.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.