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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