This eighteen-page how-to-do-it novella concentrate on twenty-six character aspects for novel cast building. Each tip has a definition, why it is important, and how to create realistic elements. The information is helpful to novice and experience writers. Use the tips to overcome writer’s block.

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In this concise book designed to assist aspiring writers, author Barry McDonald provides excellent tips for creating interesting multifaceted characters. As I was reading, I quickly realized how well many of these techniques will work for me, and I look forward to immediately integrating them into my writing process. ( )

Although this endeavor by the author, Barry McDonald, seems to be quite short, the information it contains is concise and to the point.

If you read the reviews on Amazon written by readers for books they’ve, you’ll find the vast majority dwell solely on how great, how wonderful, how ….., the book in their opinion had been as they read it.
In the slow writing of my current adult Contemporary romance novel, which I’m still writing, somehow intuitively sensed I needed to increase my attention to the characters, especially the ones who were the protagonists. Perhaps this is due to my now being a voracious book reviewer, who after posting my reviews, goes on to the other reviews which have been submitted.

Mr. McDonald has taken concept of character based story writing and has broken it down into 26 blocks of easily digested interlocking pieces of information for the minds of aspiring authors to absorb on its own terms. The author doesn’t merely spurt this information haphazardly, he presents it in a manner which continuously builds on itself.

And as in any learning process, the author uses his own life experiences as an author to enhance this learning process, and give his readers the tips and tricks he has learned.

For his willingness to help all aspiring reach their potential and dreams of becoming a successful author of fiction, how more than happily to give this book, 5 STARS. ( )