Quick-Read Character and Plot Handbooks Conflict #Competition

Who says that getting older is a bad thing? It was four years ago on… let me peer at the calendar with my ageing eyesight… Saturday… that I left the traumatic world of social work to become a full time author. I’ve never looked back. To share the heady joy of freedom (oh believe me, I do not miss where I came from…) I am having a competition.

Below are the ebooks you can win, which come in pdf, mobi (Kindle), or epub (iBooks) format. Answer in the comments and also tell me which format you’d prefer to receive your book in. Next week I’ll send both books to the winners. Ensure you give the WordPress comment form a valid email address. (I won’t misuse it, collect it, sell it etc.)

Here is what you have to do. Tell me the topic of the stupidest fight you have ever had. The two that make me laugh the most or totally bamboozle me, win. I don’t want all the details, just the topic in one sentence. The best fight starter I have ever heard of was a paperclip. That one won the bamboozle section. Humans are curious creatures, aren’t they?

Good luck… and don’t forget to look back and laugh. Life really is crazy.

 

Creating and Resolving Conflict in Fiction

This book dissects conflict into its component parts; looks at how it works and helps you generate conflict plot-lines and themes which will add richness and realism to your work. The principles apply to any kind of fiction, regardless of the length, characters or genre. It is written by a writing teacher who also has a background in counselling.

Building Emotionally Realistic Characters

Review from Valerie Caraotta: “This resource is very good for writers because if the attempt is to build characters around certain emotional states it becomes imperative to accurately write a work of fiction that is realistic. Author Cate Russell-Cole shares the reality that what others see and hear must be something they have encountered and can relate to easily. Because it is critical to bring characters to life in a convincing way she provides the psychology behind various mental states including depression, grief, psychological shock, fear, shame, and also the severity of schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder.

I greatly tuned my ears into all she offered when providing the characteristics of each state because she came from a counseling background. Knowing the duration of grief stages will help you create appropriate time frames built into novels. The reader will become much more engaged in your work and you will gain greater credibility.

This is a book that could revolutionize your writing and bring it to another level. There are other books in this series also worth considering. It is set at a bargain price for the information that will be presented.”

Whether you are writing fiction, memoir, poetry, short stories, plays, screenplays or music, the ability of your work to touch others depends on how they relate to the emotional messages you are conveying. What they see and hear must be something they have encountered and can relate to easily; or it must be shared in another way they can grasp. This e-book is a full of the incantations you need to bring your characters to life in a way that is emotionally realistic. There are no short cuts to “happily ever after” endings, which leave your plot line hollow and sounding fake. The book contains introductory level psychology which will give you an insight into how emotions and events weave us together into a whole or hurting person.

This is the second book in the Four Dimensional Characterisation Series.

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