7 Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors

[The artist’s] job is not to present merely the external life of his character. He must fit his own human qualities to the life of this other person, and pour into it all of his own soul. The fundamental aim of our art is the creation of this inner life of a human spirit, and its expression in an artistic form.

~CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY in An Actor Prepares.

In Getting into Character, Brandilyn Collins says writers share with actors the basic means of achiving it: observation.

From the very first...