Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction

By Samantha Keel

Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you're inflicting matters . With in-depth analysis of nine different injury plots in popular fiction and a walkthrough of how to build your own, this book is the guide to using injuries in your story. Written by a paramedic with a decade of experience, Maim Your Characters will teach you what to do - and what not to. This book also includes a sneak preview of the upcoming Blood on the Page , a book of injuries to incorporate into your tales. If Maim Your Characters is the how and why of injuring characters, then Blood on the Page is the what . Are you ready.... to Maim Your Characters ?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152137533X
• ISBN13: 9781521375334
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"