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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.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of great info, poorly documented and structured,
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This review is from: The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types (Hardcover)
This book includes a lot of very useful and interesting information. It's all there, everything they say is true: personality summaries, sexual abnormalities, profiles of murderers, etc. If you are the target audience for this book, you will probably benefit from this information. (FYI: I bought it for characters to create in games.)However, I found it incredibly difficult to actually use this book. Everything is listed in a bullet-like format, so each point is incredibly brief and usually incomplete. You don't get an understanding for these concepts, you get a summary. This makes it difficult to actually put the content to good use. On to the nit-picky issues: There are a number of times when the use of headings in the book made it difficult to tell what I was actually reading. I would be in one section, and suddenly I was reading about a completely different topic - the section had changed, but there had not been a heading to indicate the transition. You learn quickly to ignore the formatting of the headings, as it doesn't seem to actually be useful. There are a number of typographical errors in the book, also, far more than I would expect from a book that actually gets published. However, it isn't an extremely expensive book, so this isn't a major complaint. If this kind of thing bothers you, keep it in mind.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
I tried to like this book, really I did,
This review is from: The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types (Hardcover)
The front cover of this book shows a character broken into more than a dozen parts. I felt disjointed, just like the cover, when I tried to work my way through the book. It doesn't flow in any intuitive way and I felt lost even when I thought I knew what I was looking for.I'd like to have a great writers guide to stimulate thought on different personality types, mannerisms, etc. But I'm afraid this isn't the one.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Writer's Guide to Character Traits,
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This review is from: The Writer’s Guide to Character Traits (Paperback)
The Writer's Guide to Character Traits The book is great! Everything I wanted and more. I highly recommend it as a must-have resource book for any writer, including anyone in the juvenile market. It's easy to navigate, the 'traits' are exhaustive, and listed for clarity and quick research. Invaluable!
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