Creative Writing 101

Lesson 5: Character Building.

Writing Exercise and Bibliography.

For the writing exercise this time, create a sympathetic character whose ideas are very different from your own. Introduce him or her in a short excerpt. Before you begin, plan the genre and part of the plot, or use a plot you have already invented during Lesson 4.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

'Translations in Celadon'.

'In Search of a Husband'.

The Phryne Fisher series by Kerry Greenwood.

The Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton. Sample title; 'M is for Malice', Macmillan 1997.

The Charles Paris series, by Simon Brett. Many titles reprinted by iUniverse in 2000. Sample title; 'So Much Blood', 2000.

The Vicky Bliss series, by Elizabeth Peters, Warner Books. Sample title; 'Night Train to Memphis', 1995.

The 'Big Mike' or 'Cat' series by Garrison Allen. Sample title; 'Movie Cat', Kensington Publishing, 1999.

'Anna's Own'. Pan Macmillan, 1995. Reissued by New Concepts Publishing in 2000.

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