Fiction Is Folks

Fiction Is Folks

"Fiction is Folks: How to Create Unforgettable Characters" is a humorous writing guide by the young adult author Robert Newton Peck that focuses on the art of creating fictional characters.

ummary

It includes exercises to:

* Build characters from people you know
* Use yourself as a character
* Write about people around you as they actually are
* Research your characters and how to incorporate the results in your writing
* Cure the "narrative drag"
* Find buzz words and use them to your best advantage
* Turn pet-peeves into a salable idea
* Use trouble to supercharge your story

In hardcover, the book is 182 pages long.ISBN: 0-89879-113-8Date of Publication: 1983

References

* The author regularly uses examples from his own books including "Soup" and "A Day No Pigs Would Die".

* The book was promoted by author Sloan Wilson who wrote "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" (later made into a film with Gregory Peck) and "A Summer Place".


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