How do you inhabit a character who isn't like you? Whether you write literary or genre fiction, this book shows you how to create people who keep readers hooked and make you want to tell stories
Author: Roz Morris
Publisher: Spark Furnace Books
ISBN: 1909905968
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The author of over 100 romances ( primarily as Nora Roberts ) , Robb has written
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lar effect , in the works of Godwin and Charles have smothered a whole regiment
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How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated Nancy Kress. • What
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Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
ISBN: UOM:39015045638957
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Soviet readers ' whole , and it would be our lack of understandone of Twain's
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( 26 ) I therefore so run , not as uncertainly ; so fight I , not as one that beateth the
air : ( 27 ) but I keep under my body ... means of it reminds the reader the dignity
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which in ...
Author: Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester)
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The story revolves around two major characters , Rat Korga and Marq Dyeth , two
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The work itself will bear Wadleigh , since they have already had the pleasure of
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France ...
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Brandsimple: How the Best Brands Keep It Simple and Succeed ALLEN P.
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stantly relating what they are reading to other experiences they have had , other
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EDITOR'S TABLE , nothing of an educational character does so much toward the
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The his rather vulgar little wife is bright and not write a good novel : but French
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book , she becomes ...
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The his rather vulgar little wife is bright and not write a good novel : but French
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book , she beconies ...
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The carriages are “ Guardian and Lover ” is the double office A writer who
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whole string round . ... which the guardianship of an appreciative bachelor the
author of the novel before us keeps | approaches to character in ... Yet , when a
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reading the book , she ...
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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his essays so great an acquisition to English | misled in the estimate of individual
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rapidity of thought in the writer . who stands at the head of her whole sex , in all
Filled to ...
Author: Archibald Alison
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ISBN: NYPL:33433082474218
Category: Europe
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Praise for Skytrain to Murder Skytrain “ Skytrain to Murder is a brilliantly written
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Author: Dean Barrett
Publisher: Village East Book
ISBN: 0978888804
Category: Fiction
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Amid the more strident voices of most of our younger writers, the gentler note
struck by Miss Peard is welcome for its intrinsic ... in which the principal
characters are unexpectedly brought into immediate contact —much after the
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reader is kept in a perfect fog for two-thirds of the story, the plot of which is
certainly original, but so wildly ...
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There is movement and vigour in the whole of this exciting tale . ' - MORNING
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Sims must always command attention , and this one is told in a most captivating
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