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Creating Character Arcs

The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development

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Creating Character Arcs

By: K.M. Weiland
Narrated by: Sonja Field
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Powerful character arcs create powerful stories.

Have you written a story with an exciting concept and interesting characters - but it just isn't grabbing the attention of readers or agents? It's time to look deeper into the story beats that create realistic and compelling character arcs. Internationally published, award-winning novelist K.M. Weiland shares her acclaimed method for achieving memorable and moving character arcs in every book you write.

By applying the foundation of the three-act story structure and then delving even deeper into the psychology of realistic and dynamic human change, Weiland offers a beat-by-beat checklist of character arc guidelines that flexes to fit any type of story.

This comprehensive book will teach you:

  • How to determine which arc - positive, negative, or flat - is right for your character.
  • Why you should never pit plot against character. Instead, learn how to blend story structure and character development.
  • How to recognize and avoid the worst pitfalls of writing novels without character arcs.
  • How to hack the secret to using overarching character arcs to create amazing trilogies and series.
  • And much more!

Gaining an understanding of how to write character arcs is a game-changing moment in any author's pursuit of the craft.

Bring your characters to unforgettable and realistic life - and take your stories from good to great!

©2016 K.M. Weiland (P)2017 K.M. Weiland Creativity Personal Development
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without a summary PDF it's too much info for audiobook.
The narrator was very good with nice voice that understood the book.
This book made me understand why Homers Odyssea is the most influential book ever written,
everything after it, it's pretty much the same story..

it's good I guess but...

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I bought this book and it didn’t disappoint! Buy this book! You won’t regret it!

Great book!

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The book is pack with fantastic information. The audio book, I felt, needed a crib sheet for future reference as there are many lists and summaries that warrants revisiting,which is difficult to navigate if like me, you only have the audio book with no bookmarking facilities. A valuable aid for future writers and those who want a deeper understanding of the writers craft.
With a PDF, I would have given triple '5' review.

Great listen but needs an accompanying PDF.

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In depth analysis on most characters in movies, novels and media. A Must Read. Thanks

Fantastic

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This book opened my mind to the large topic of character creation.

Defiantly worth a listen.

Greatly helps with character building

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If you are new or unfamiliar with the terminology used in story structure I suggest that you first read ‘Structuring Your Novel’ in order to get the best from ‘Creating Character Arcs’. Both books are very good reference materials for writers and as K. M. Weiland points out ‘plot structure and character arc are integral to one another’. Since both references are stand-alone books it’s not surprising that there is an overlap in the material covered. Therefore, if you have read ‘Structuring Your Novel’ first then I suggest leaving some time before reading ‘Creating Character Arcs’. This will allow you to approach the material fresh and absorb the new information on character arcs without doing a mental comparison of both books as I did. I am happy to have both books as references and find that going through the checklists and questions is helping to improve my writing.

Another Good Reference Book for Writers

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This is the most helpful book I've read on writing. Words added because audible insisted they must exist.

This book changed my writing

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I'm about halfway through this and can't continue. it's just rammed with buzz words and superficial references to books and movies and TV shows that don't mean very much. not much in the way of practical information you can act on. it also seems to spend a lot of time trying to get you to read other books written by the author. I have a horrible feeling that if you followed the author's advice you would just end up with a story that it is massively over structured.

not loving this full of buzzwords

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