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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