by Nancy Kress · Writers Digest Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780898798159
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«Dynamic Characters» is Nancy Kress's creative writing guide, published by Writers Digest Books in hardcover (264 pages, in English).
The author examines how solid characterization can sustain a story's plot. With excerpts from well-known fiction and exercises, she teaches how to build characters from the physical to the emotional and mental, so they become multidimensional, react to tense situations, and keep the reader engaged.
First edition published on July 15, 1998. Nancy Kress has received the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Aimed at writers and creative writing students interested in building fictional characters.
Nancy Anne Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion Workshops. During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.
