1,000 Character Writing Prompts: Villains, Heroes and Hams for Scripts, Stories and More

1,000 Character Writing Prompts: Villains, Heroes and Hams for Scripts, Stories and More Review

From the author of 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts, this 300 page, 150,000+ word reference tool can serve writers who need characters and need them now!

If character development is your problem, this detailed reference tool for any writer is the solution. Imagine if every time you sat down to brainstorm for your stories, scripts and more, you had a notebook full of character ideas ready to spring to life on the page. This time-saving, idea-generating tome can ensure that from protagonist to checkout girl, your characters are fully developed and captivating. Covering a variety of genres, time periods and styles, 1,000 Character Writing Prompts, adds nuance and depth to the typical character stereotypes many writers rely on.

The book includes the following archetypes:
• Superheroes, sidekicks and secret agents
• Monsters, demons and strange creatures
• Optimists, pessimists and screw ups
• Zombies, werewolves and vampires
• Lawyers, doctors and butchers
• Rebels, ninjas, actors, villains, pets, babies and many more!

Each of the 1,000 character ideas ends with a question or command to push you past your writer's block and into a creative flow state for your future writing sessions. This sequel to author Bryan Cohen's popular 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts can take your writing productivity to a whole new level.

Bryan Cohen is a director, a comedian and an author of several books on the art of writing including 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More and Writer on the Side: How to Write Your Book Around Your 9 to 5 Job. His website Build Creative Writing Ideas helps over 240,000 visitors a year to push past writer's block and reach their creative goals. He lives in Chicago.

Writer's Guide to Character Traits

Writer's Guide to Character Traits Review

From Sex to Schizophrenia: Everything You Need to Develop Your Characters!

What makes a person commit a white-collar crime? Who is a likely candidate to join a cult? Why do children have imaginary friends? How does birth order affect whether or not a person gets married? When does mind over matter become a crippling problem?

Writer's Guide to Character Traits, 2nd edition answers all of these questions and many others. With more than 400 easy-to-reference lists of traits blended from a variety of behaviors and influences, you'll gain the knowledge you need to create distinctive characters whose personalities correspond to their thoughts and actions - no matter how normal or psychotic they might be. In this updated and expanded edition, you'll also find:

• Comprehensive instruction on how to use this book
  
  
• New statistical information to help you create true-to-life characters
  
  
• Corresponding exercises that show you how to put the material to work in your stories
  
  
• A quick-reference index to make cross-referencing a snap
  
  
• Idea sparkers to get your thoughts out of your head and onto the page

Plus, you'll learn about common - and not so common - psychological, physical, and relationship disorders; delve into the minds of criminals; find out what it takes to be a professional athlete, scientist, and truck driver; discover what life is like for a gang member, suicidal teen, and alcoholic; and more.

In Writer's Guide to Character Traits, 2nd edition, note psychologist and author Dr. Linda Edelstein takes you beyond generic personality types and into the depths of the human psyche where you're sure to find the resources you need to make your characters stand out from the crowd.

Bleach MASKED: Official Character Book 2

Bleach MASKED: Official Character Book 2 Review

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Uncover the secrets of Bleach! This profile book contains extensive information on the characters and story from Bleach volumes 21-37. It includes exclusive color art, a poster, bonus materials and an interview with Tite Kubo. Step into the ghostly world of Bleach like never before!

Cast of Characters

Cast of Characters Review

TWENTY-EIGHT LEADING VOICES IN FICTION – INCLUDING ELEVEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS – JOIN TOGETHER IN A CELEBRATION OF GREAT STORYTELLING We love fiction. It’s in our blood and it’s in our souls. Great stories thrill us and inspire us in a way that nothing else can. If you’re like us, then we invite you to revel in this anthology of all-original stories we’ve created for you. In CAST OF CHARACTERS, you’ll meet a collection of unforgettable personalities. The devoted wife who discovers her husband’s devastating secret. The Black Death survivor who reinvents herself. The woman who finds love in the arms of a dark, dangerous artist. The devoted scientist faced with a daunting ethical dilemma. The woman who hears ghosts. The gorgeous but fated young man. The small-town beauty queen with a world-class mean streak. The inventor who fears his invention. The man seeking a reunion decades later with his first love. The stalker who understands too late who he is stalking. The dreadful athlete who gets one opportunity to win. The man who loves a woman society will not allow him to love. These are only a few of the figures who will leap from the page and take residence in your heart. In addition, CAST OF CHARACTERS is highlighted by several “events” you won’t want to miss: • #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander delivers her first short story with a contemporary setting – as does New York Times bestselling author Tanya Anne Crosby. • New York Times bestselling author Jo Beverley brings back the hero of her novel Forbidden Magic. • New York Times bestselling author Angie Fox creates a new Biker Witches story. • New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham writes her first story with her son Jason. • New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister tells the story of one of her most beloved teen characters as an adult. • National bestselling author Julie Ortolon tells the beloved Pearl Island story her fans have been clamoring for. • National bestselling author Diana Peterfreund offers the origin story for one of the most important magical items in her “killer unicorn” series. A huge volume of twenty-eight stories ranging from romance to suspense to fantasy to comedy to poignant character pieces, CAST OF CHARACTERS is a must-have book for everyone who loves fiction.

 

Chinese characters from HSK Level 2 with stroke order

Chinese characters from HSK Level 2 with stroke order Review

This book contains the 163 Simplified Chinese Characters necessary to pass the HSK Level 2 test (Character range: 177 - 339). Each character is displayed in a large handwriting font and it has its pinyin readings and the most important English translations. The strokes are labeled in order by small numbers. The arrow following the number 1 shows you the writing direction.
Search for Chinese characters from HSK Level 1 ASIN: B005G2159C on the Kindle store to find the book for HSK Level 1 (Character range: 1 - 176).



About the HSK

The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, abbreviated as HSK, is the People's Republic of China's only standardized test of Standard Chinese language proficiency for non-native speakers, namely foreign students, overseas Chinese, and members of ethnic minority groups in China. It translates literally to "Chinese Proficiency Test".

The China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Hanban) is currently responsible for the HSK exams and introduced a new format in November 2009. The new format's emphasis is "comprehensive language and communication ability". Most notable is the inclusion of spoken and written segments at all levels (not just Advanced), reformation of the ranking system, and use of new question structures.

The new ranking system reduces the three test formats to Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced. Each level has two sub-levels: "acceptable" and "with honors."

God's Wisdom for Little Boys: Character-Building Fun from Proverbs

God's Wisdom for Little Boys: Character-Building Fun from Proverbs Review

Thank You, dear God, for blessing me
With food, a home, and a family.
And now, O Lord, I ask if You might,
Help me be honest and do what is right.

Following the success of the bestselling God’s Wisdom for Little Girls, now the wonderful teachings of Proverbs come to life for young boys, age 4-7, too!  In God’s Wisdom for Little Boys memorable rhymes by Jim and Elizabeth George play alongside watercolors by Judy Luenebrink for a charming presentation of truths to live by.

With each turn of the page, parents and their children discover that God’s little boy is
prayerful
thankful
responsible
kind
brave
truthful
…and so much more!

Imparting God’s wisdom to sons, grandsons, and any young boy today will help them become men of God tomorrow. This charming book is a gift that will make an eternal impression on every special boy in your life.

Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary - The Ultimate Guide to Characters and Creatures from the Entire Star Wars Saga

Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary - The Ultimate Guide to Characters and Creatures from the Entire Star Wars Saga Review

Provides a complete, comprehensive overview of the Prequel movies (Episodes I-III) and the Trilogy (Episodes IV-VI), this is the definitive photographic guide to the entire Star Wars saga.

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Review

National Bestseller 

For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1826); and in the subsequent seventeen decades of his celebrity--now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety--has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person.

For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was "as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, has discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing." In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams." For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large--a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles.

From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to "keep it in storage"). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naïveté, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all--our very own sphinx.

Authors - How to Develop a Character: Quick and Easy Tips for Writing Credible Characters

Authors - How to Develop a Character: Quick and Easy Tips for Writing Credible Characters Review

Authors – How to Develop a Character:
Quick and Easy Tips for Writing Credible Characters

7,000 words

You may have a compelling story and an engaging style, but if your characters do not resonate with your reader or viewer, be it a novel or a screenplay, your project will not come alive and be successful.

You can spends years taking courses, going to workshops, completing assignments and exercises and studying what has been written by professional writers, and that is all good, but there are times when what you need to get yourself in gear, in the flow, or in the zone as athletes call it, is a simple shift in perspective.

This booklet may be small – 7,000 words (about 35-48 Kindle pages) – but it can be a valuable aid in helping you bring your characters to life. After the book has been read or the movie viewed, what your reader or audience will take away with them is often the rapport, the care and concern, and even a feeling of bonding with your characters. They may not recall all the carefully constructed twists and turns in the plot but human beings are innately interested in other people and that is typically where their attachment will be. And anything that can help you create memorable characters is a tool worth having.

So whether you are working on a novel, a screenplay, short stories, or making your first attempt at fiction writing, try some of these quick and easy tips for writing credible characters.

Enjoy your writing!

Desperate Characters: A Novel

Desperate Characters: A Novel Review

"A towering landmark of postwar Realism. . . . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." — David Foster Wallace

Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighborhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives. The fault lines of their marriage are revealed — echoing the fractures of society around them, slowly wrenching itself apart. First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature — a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day."

"Desperate Characters is, simply, a perfect short novel. A few characters, a small stretch of time; setting and action tightly confined — and yet, as in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, everything crucial within our souls bared." — Andrea Barrett "This perfect novel about pain is as clear, and as wholly believable, and as healing, as a fever dream." — Frederick Busch "Brilliant. . . . [Fox] is one of the most attractive writers to come our way in a long, long time." — The New Yorker   Introduced by Jonathan Franzen, one of Granta's Twenty Best Young American Novelists

Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven Review

Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven Feature

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Resentment. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. This cast of character defects will undermine the best-laid plans for recovery from addiction. It's not uncommon for individuals in recovery to hang on to negative, self-defeating behaviors after they've given up their addiction. These are the "rocks" that can sink recovery - or, at the least, block further progress. With more than 100,000 copies sold, Drop the Rock is the definitive guide to removing character defects that can prevent gratifying, long-standing recovery. Based on the Twelve Step program, particularly the principles behind Steps Six and Seven, Drop the Rock combines personal stories, practical advice, and powerful insights to help readers move forward in recovery. The second edition features additional stories, a reference section, and information about starting a Drop the Rock study group.