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. Summary 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: 0-89879-113-8 Date of Publication: 1983
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