Writing Real Characters: Leaders and Elites

By Christopher Pendergraft and Archer Throne

Discover the SECRET TECHNIQUE professional, award-winning writers use to Create INCREDIBLY compelling, UNFORGETTABLE characters - EVERY TIME Character work is one of the most demanding, frustrating, yet important tasks for a writer. Your characters serve as a mental link between the reader and the world you've created. Flat, boring or uninspired characters will instantly turn off even the most devout fan. Readers will often forgive a boring plot as long if they can CONNECT with your characters. Why? At the end of the day, a story with memorable, interesting characters taking memorable, interesting actions will ALWAYS be a MEMORABLE, INTERESTING STORY. From Romeo and Juliet to The Great Gatsby, or Harry Potter, The Hunger Games (or even Fifty Shades of Grey), it's the characters and the choices they made ultimately comprise the HEART of the narrative. What we remember is larger-than-life Jay Gatsby and his immense love for Daisy. Fierce heroine Katniss, who willingly threw herself into the gauntlet to protect her sister from sure death. Darth Vader. Hannibal Lector. Rocky Balboa. Michael Corleone. Count Dracula. Ebenezer Scrooge. It's All About Character. Thing is, there's still that quality about good character work that just seems so elusive. In my own writing, no matter how hard I tried, my characters still seemed to lack that "wow" factor. They all seemed like carbon copies of each other. It wasn't until years later, while listening to a lecture at the Writers' Guild in Los Angeles that I learned a secret that would change my writing forever. While listening to the lecture, I noticed this average, everyday looking guy in a baseball cap jotting down notes. Afterwards, I ended up running into him outside. We began to chat about movies, writing, etc. and he suggested that we take the conversation to a small caf

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1717775314
• ISBN13: 9781717775313
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"