Comments on: How to Create Fictional Characters Using Adversity

By: Get Ready for 10 Days of Character Building | Writer's Resource Center

Get Ready for 10 Days of Character Building | Writer's Resource Center — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:32:20 +0000

[...] Building Characters Through Adversity [...]

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:33:45 +0000

Rachel,
There is no substitute for research, but I recommend Amazon, not the Library. Go to Amazon and look for books that are similar to yours. Each book comes with publisher information. Compile a list of all the publishers who seem like a good fit with the work you want to have published. You should then contact these publishers directly and ask them to send you their submission guidelines. Follow their guidelines as closely as you can. Some may not accept your work without an agent or if you haven’t been published before. Forget those publishers for now and concentrate on the ones that will at least consider an unknown, unagented writer.

Good luck.

John

By: Rachael Nib

Rachael Nib — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:14:08 +0000

I am thinking about getting one of my books published in the future.
It is not, like, 100 chapters…it’s more like, the size of the book
TWILIGHT…if that makes sense…anyway, have you ever gotten a fiction
book published? do you know any good publishers? or do I have to go to
the library and find out for myself?

By: Rachael Nib

Rachael Nib — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:12:36 +0000

this has really helped me…thank you

By: Joseph Garcia

Joseph Garcia — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:29:44 +0000

I liked John Hewitt's entry about how stories always have conflicts and adversity.Also how characters deal with adversity and it becomes drama.There is still I something about the word "adversity".There is physical adeversity and an adversity about emotions.I have a question about the miscommunication and deception article.How is it that miscommunication and deception be alike?I understood the desire article.It explained why a character would start to get desire for something.The displacement didn't really make sense because the way it described it by saying that characters face was messed up.Well that is what I thought about the articles that I read. Sincerly your student, Joseph Cruz Garcia ;`)

By: carbet

carbet — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:14:45 +0000

Hello I would like to know, since today, any teaching is planetary thanks to Internet, why the Anglo-Saxon universities aren’t put to teach matters like “French playwriting”? That would interest me much. That is feasible. Which are the causes? It would be enough to engage of the professors who speak French and to translate the courses, and that would be a source of additional profits All this is a pity well. Regards

By: Rogelio

Rogelio — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:26:36 +0000

I thought everything was true and was easy to understand. I learned about relationships and how they work in a story.

By: Zoe Anaya

Zoe Anaya — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:05:06 +0000

Do all the characters have to have a desire ?
why can’t you just change the whole character ?
If you were to write a storywould you make someone die ?

By: Zoe Anaya

Zoe Anaya — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:00:55 +0000

Do all the characters have to have a desire ?

By: ALMA MURILLO

ALMA MURILLO — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:00:09 +0000

I WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD TELL US AT LEAST ABOUT WHAT 2
OF THOSE STORYS SO WE KNOW IN WHAT WE ARE COMPARING.WHAT
I LIKED ABOUT THIS ARTICLE WAS THAT THEY TOLD YOU EVERY STEP FOR
BUILDING A CHARACTER AND THEY EVEN PUT SOME EXSAMPLES.I THOUGHT THIS WAS A VERY COOL ARTICLE.IT WAS SO DETAILED AND PERFECT TO
WRITE A CHARACTER STORY.I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!