Creating Unforgettable Characters

by Linda Seger

Paperback, 1990

Status

Available

Call number

808.2

Collection

Your library

Publication

Holt Paperbacks (1990), Edition: 1st, Paperback, 256 pages

Description

In this book, Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. Interviews with today's top writers complete this essential volume.

User reviews

LibraryThing member gilroy

As I read through this book, I found a few snippets of information for the novel or short story writer. The cover claims it should assist all writers, but what it lists mostly follows for the screen writer. Many of its case studies and suggestions trend toward the writing of a screen play, rather

than a general feel on creating characters for a written story.

Some advice the author offers does cover things of interest, like the psycology of a character, examining possible character issues, and how readers perceive non-standard characters. Other tidbits definitely leave a person seeking assistance to scramble for another reference to fill in additional details that the author left aside.

Interview pieces are informative to learn about older movies. Will definitely make me willing to look at referenced material with a different eye, but doesn't assist the present status of my writing. While informative for some things, I would recommend finding an additional source to boost a writer's character creation ability.

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LibraryThing member ElOsoBlanco

At times I really enjoyed some of the tips and shared experience that this book had to offer, and at other times I felt out of the loop because of the large amount of references made to works that I had not read or seen. When the author was talking about characters from a film I'd seen, I felt like

I was learning a lot, but that didn't happen often enough to warrant more than 3 stars for this book.

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LibraryThing member leduck

I picked this book up as part of a class on the future of storytelling. I'll use this advice in planning and running roleplaying games, to build better characters. I thought that it had a lot of good advice (some of which seems pretty basic too me), but it seemed very solid, was presented logically

and the chapters built on each other. This book was also written in 1990, which worked fine for me given my age, but may seem dated or obscure to younger people, particularly those born in the late 80s or beyond.

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