The art of character creating memorable characters for fiction, film, and tv
"The ultimate guide for creating captivating charactersFormer private investigator and New York Times Notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, a...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: Conceiving the character (1. Fingering smoke: are characters created or discovered? ; 2. Summoning ghosts: source material for characters ; 3. The examined life: using personal experience as an intuitive link to the character)
- Part two: Developing the character (4. Five cornerstones of dramatic characterization ; 5. Desire as purpose: a driving need, want, ambition, or goal ; 6. Desire denied: adaptations, defense mechanisms, and pathological maneuvers ; 7. The power of wounds: vulnerability ; 8. The gravity of the hidden: secrets ; 9. The paradox of this but that: contradictions ; 10. Serving and defying the tyranny of motive ; 11. Dynamic verrsus static: creating a biography from scenes ; 12. Flesh and blood and shoes: the character's physical nature ; 13. The tempest within: the character's psychological nature ; 14. The teeming world: the character's sociological nature ; 15. Picking a fight: politics ; 16. Quirks, tics and bad habits).
- Part three: Roles (17. Meaning and its messenger: the protagonist and the premise ; 18. The challenge of change: three protagonist questions ; 19. Ciphers, stiffs and sleepwalkers: protagonist problems ; 20. The character of conflict: the opponent ; 21. The army of others: secondary characters)
- Part four: Technique (22. The clash of character: scenes ; 23. The personal in perspective: point of view ; 24. Language as attitude: voice ; 25. Word as deed: dialog)
- Epilogue: the examined life redux: our characters, our selves.
