About Developing Characters: F un Ways to Cast Your Fiction By Marilyn Flower
Marilyn Flower’s Developing Characters: Fun Ways to Cast Your Fiction is a delightful guide for fiction writers seeking deeper insight into character creation. As an author myself of more than a dozen published novels, I found Flower’s three techniques (blogging from the characters’ perspectives, creating SoulCollage® cards, and exploring Enneagram personality types) engaging springboards for developing authentic characters that won’t feel flat or contrived.
Although letting characters take the reins risks distraction, Flower gives tips to keep writing priorities in check. I’ve known several authors who spend so much time getting to know their characters that they never actually write a single word of the story. To help avoid this problem, Flowers ends each chapter with accessible exercises to try these methods yourself. Developing Characters bubbles over with offbeat humor and a contagious passion for the fictional friends we conjure up out of thin air. This guide is a boon for writers seeking to people their stories with dimensional, delightful characters destined to linger in readers’ minds long after “The End.”
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Author Bio:
Marilyn Flower is an author, playwright, poet, and proud resident of Oakland, California. Humor is her first and favorite language. Be it political satire in her forthcoming novel, or zany commentaries for MuddyUm on Medium.com, laughter is her way to stay in top physical, emotional, and spiritual shape for crazy times such as these.
Besides “writer,” Marilyn answers to “sacred fool” and “prayer warrior.” She studies clowning, improv, and all-round feistiness at Stagebridge.org, the premier senior theater school which happens to be right down the street. Fellow clowns, John Cleese and Roberto Benigni share an October 27th birthday with her, though they got there first.
She’s a top writer in humor, satire, and poetry on Medium.com where she has her own publication, Humor! Authenticity! Magic! She’s also a contributing editor to Middle-Pause, as well as interviewing guest speakers for their podcast STOMP!
With a little or a lot of humor, she writes about health, recovery, writing, mid-life issues, and the body politic, as well as SoulCollage® and its application for writers. Her posts appear daily on Facebook.
She adores being a daughter, sister, aunt, and great aunt which pries her away from the laptop and keeps her in shape.
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