Breathing Life Into Your Characters

Author : Rachel Ballon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599633701
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing Life Into Your Characters written by Rachel Ballon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create Convincing Characters That Readers—and Editors—Can't Resist! It's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience? How can you describe the feelings of a drug addict if you've never been one? How can you write about being a prisoner if you've never been to jail? You can do all the research you want, but the question still remains: How do you convincingly portray characters if you've never lived in their skin? In Breathing Life Into Your Characters, writing consultant and professional psychotherapist Rachel Ballon, Ph. D., shows you how to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings necessary to truly understand your characters—no matter what their background or life experiences. She'll show you how to: • Develop a psychological profile for every character • Turn archetypes into conflicted characters • Think like a criminal to convincingly write one • Reveal personalities through the use of nonverbal communication In addition, you'll learn how to effectively use Ballon's "Method Writing" system—taught previously only in her writing workshops—to explore your own feelings, memories, and emotions to create characters of astonishing depth and complexity!

Author : Rachel Friedman Ballon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing Life Into Your Characters written by Rachel Friedman Ballon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create Convincing Characters That Readers-and Editors-Can't Resist! It's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience' How can you describe the feelings of a drug addict if you've never been one' How can you write about being a prisoner if you've never been to jail' You can do all the research you want, but the question still remains: How do you convincingly portray characters if you've never lived in their skin' In Breathing Life Into Your Characters, writing consultant and professional psychotherapist Rachel Ballon, Ph. D., shows you how to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings necessary to truly understand your characters-no matter what their background or life experiences. She'll show you how to: Develop a psychological profile for every character Turn archetypes into conflicted characters Think like a criminal to convincingly write one Reveal personalities through the use of nonverbal communication In addition, you'll learn how to effectively use Ballon's "Method Writing" system-taught previously only in her writing workshops-to explore your own feelings, memories, and emotions to create characters of astonishing depth and complexity!

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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing Life Into Your Characters written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create Convincing Characters That Readers--and Editors--Can't Resist! It's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience? How can you describe the feelings of a drug addict if you've never been one? How can you write about being a prisoner if you've never been to jail? You can do all the research you want, but the question still remains: How do you convincingly portray characters if you've never lived in their skin? In Breathing Life Into Your Characters, writing consultant and professional psychotherapist Rachel Ballon, Ph. D., shows you how to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings necessary to truly understand your characters--no matter what their background or life experiences. She'll show you how to: Develop a psychological profile for every character Turn archetypes into conflicted characters Think like a criminal to convincingly write one Reveal personalities through the use of nonverbal communication In addition, you'll learn how to effectively use Ballon's "Method Writing" system--taught previously only in her writing workshops--to explore your own feelings, memories, and emotions to create characters of astonishing depth and complexity!

Author : Rachel Ballon
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582971810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing Life into Your Characters written by Rachel Ballon and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2003-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapist Rachel Ballon teaches the reader how to use the principles of psychology to understand their characters better. Through a mix of instruction, examples, and writing and visualization exercises, readers learn how to tap into their own stories and emotions to create realistic, complex characters.

Author : Ralph Fletcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062014919
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live Writing written by Ralph Fletcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for how to make your writing come alive, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. What is “live writing”? It’s the kind of writing that has a current running through it—energy, electricity, juice. This book is a young writer’s toolbox for bringing writing to life. But instead of awls and hammers, this toolbox contains words, imagination, a love of books, a sense of story, and ideas for how to make the writing live and breathe. Perfect for classrooms, Live Writing is full of practical wisdom for young writers, from bestselling writer Ralph Fletcher. Aspiring writers will devour these tips for how to make their words jump off the page!

Author : E. J. Levy
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316536555
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cape Doctor written by E. J. Levy and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "gorgeous, thoughtful, heartbreaking" historical novel, The Cape Doctor is the story of one man’s journey from penniless Irish girl to one of most celebrated and accomplished figures of his time (Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for Me). Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Jonathan Mirandus Perry’s journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry soon embraced the new-found freedom of living life as a man. From brilliant medical student in Edinburgh and London to eligible bachelor and quick-tempered physician in Cape Town, Dr. Perry thrived. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives. E. J. Levy’s enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive.

Author : Sonja Cherry-Paul
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325076850
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing New Life Into Book Clubs written by Sonja Cherry-Paul and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / Cornelius Minor Gratitude -- Creating a culture of reading through book clubs -- Organizing and setting up book clubs -- Launching and managing book clubs -- Lighting the fire of discussion -- Resources at a glance -- Living with books all year long.

Author : JJ Bola
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982175583
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selfless Act of Breathing written by JJ Bola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Black teacher searches for himself across the United States in this “emotive, brave” (Daily Mail, London) story for all of us who have fantasized about escaping our daily lives and starting over. Michael Kabongo is a British Congolese teacher living in London and living the dream: he’s beloved by his students, popular with his coworkers, and adored by his proud mother who emigrated from the Congo to the UK in search of a better life. But when he suffers a devastating loss, his life is thrown into a tailspin. As he struggles to find a way forward, memories of his fathers’ violent death, the weight of refugeehood, and an increasing sense of dread threaten everything he’s worked so hard to achieve. Longing to start over, Michael decides to spontaneously pack up and go to America, the mythical “land of the free,” where he imagines everything will be better and easier. On this transformative journey, Michael travels everywhere from New York City to San Francisco, partying with new friends, sparking fleeting romances, and splurging on big adventures, with the intention of living the life of his dreams until the money in his bank account runs out. “Narrated with haunting lyricism, The Selfless Act of Breathing is an intimate journey through the darkest of human impulses to the gleaming flickers of love and radical hope” (Susan Abulhawa, author of Against the Loveless World).

Author : Luccia Rogers, PhD.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312248114
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogue: Breathing Life into Writing written by Luccia Rogers, PhD. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This course manual is intended to help writers build their confidence in writing dialogue that "rings true." By this, we mean that the words spoken by characters sound the way actual people speak, that the dialogue helps move the story forward, sets the pace, sets or changes the tone of the story, and is a natural, integral part of a work of fiction. We assume the reader is already writing or is ready to start writing fiction. The course is heavily weighted toward learning by doing. The best advice established writers give to aspiring writers is always a version of, write, write, write. This course takes that advice and organizes your writing efforts to help you focus your attention on various parts of writing lively, informative, exciting, and life-like dialogue.

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527534685
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing Life into Biology written by John Stewart and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that contemporary biology is focused almost exclusively on genes and molecules. This approach, despite giving rise to exciting developments, such as DNA sequencing and genetic engineering, does not take into account the living organisms themselves. This text redresses this imbalance: firstly, by providing a sketch of a fully-fledged theory of what living organisms are; and then putting this theory to work by recounting the story of the evolution of living organisms on Earth.