Getting Into Character Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors edition by Brandilyn Collins Reference eBooks
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EDITION 2 Revised and with new added material, gathered through 13 years of teaching these concepts at writers conferences.
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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
Getting Into Character Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors edition by Brandilyn Collins Reference eBooks
This book stands so far above the general class of "let me help you with my way" books it is in a class of its own. The book is not about word choice and sentences, and it is not about plot-theme-narrative structure. It is about approaches to use to deeply understand your characters so that your readers can come to understand your characters.Based on Stanislavsky's training for actors, this book isn't just a useful read - it should be considered a course of study. It has brought my attention and focus to a new primary perspective, and has restructured my approach to my writing.
Brandilyn Collin's work is not 'wares for sale', it is a gift.
Thank you, Brandilyn.
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Getting Into Character Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors edition by Brandilyn Collins Reference eBooks Reviews
I found this book challenging and informative. Have a pen and notebook handy. Recommend it for writers of all levels.
Brandilyn Collins treats us to the seven secrets she uses to bring her fiction to life. Through great examples and thorough explanations, she shows writers how to incorporate these secrets.
Beginning with personalizing, she encourages writers to dig deeply to understand themselves and their characters in a way that almost guarantees well-rounded characters. She delves into areas not often thought about that broaden and strengthen stories in surprising ways.
Use of action objectives provides clear motives, tension and conflict for characters, and subtexting explains how to capture unspoken dialogue on the printed page. Coloring passions and inner rhythm help writers develop rich, believable, emotional characters. Restraint and control explains how authors can make the best word choices, and emotion memory enables writers to create vivid characters even though they have not had experiences similar to those of their characters.
The appendix alone is worth the price of the book, because it recommends additional books on writing fiction. Each entry lists the book Ms. Collins recommends and the secret it supplements. 'Getting Into Character' will help both novice and experienced writers hone their skills. My well-worn copy sits on my desk so I can refer to it often.
I love this book! I have multitudes of writing craft books on my shelves, but this is one of the best! Ms. Collins interprets the Stanislavsky method of acting to help writers render fictional characters realistically and dramatically. There's much in here that I have not seen in other books on this subject and her suggestions are extremely helpful
I am no novice when it comes to reading books on the subject of writing. I have a library that would rival most of the big booksellers in America.
To me, this was one of the best books I've ever picked up on the subject of building strong fictional characters. Next to Dwight Swain Master Writing Teacher's books and perhaps one or two others, this book is by far one of the best, and one I keep referring back to over and over again.
It takes you to the ground level of your story, by that I mean, character to character acting, as if you had your scene in front of you in miniature, and you could move and interact with each character within your scene. I found myself playing the role of each of my characters. Not only did it give me a better idea of how my characters should behave, they suddenly came alive and told me what they were going to do. That is priceless.
I love this book and would recommend it to anyone!
Five stars does not seem like enough.
One of the best books on writing I’ve read. Interesting and engaging to the point I sometimes forgot I was reading a how-to book. Loved it on ; think I’m going to go get a paperback copy so I can mark it up and keep it on my bookshelf for ready reference.
Great tool for writing! Take your time reading this book! Read it more than once! I really connected with her chapter on Inner Rhythm. Inner Rhythm is a chapter that still resonates with me, even a month later after reading this book. If you enjoy this book, I highly suggest her novel "Over the Edge" as a companion of sorts. If you read this book, you do see that this writer/author uses what she instructs in Getting into Character. Thank you Brandilyn Collins for your work.
I've been writing for years. I never read anything about writing theory, style, etc. Ive always read books about ensuring you don't get writer's block or write yourself into a corner. That said, all of those books were worthless and this is not. This book helps when you can write and you can't. You absorb your characters into yourself and create value systems for them that really flesh them out. Things like mannerisms, and ways of speaking; its pretty crazy. After you get it down, it's like your stories write themselves, and you characters are super believable. I highly recommend it.
This book stands so far above the general class of "let me help you with my way" books it is in a class of its own. The book is not about word choice and sentences, and it is not about plot-theme-narrative structure. It is about approaches to use to deeply understand your characters so that your readers can come to understand your characters.
Based on Stanislavsky's training for actors, this book isn't just a useful read - it should be considered a course of study. It has brought my attention and focus to a new primary perspective, and has restructured my approach to my writing.
Brandilyn Collin's work is not 'wares for sale', it is a gift.
Thank you, Brandilyn.
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