YABC is excited to share the trailer reveal for
Beginner’s Guide to Creating Genuine Characters by Hank Quense!
Read on to learn more about Hank, his book, and a giveaway!
Meet The Author: Hank Quense
Early in his writing career, he was strongly influenced by two authors: Douglas Adams and his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Happily, Hank has never quite recovered from those experiences.
He lives with his wife in northern New Jersey, a mere 20 miles from Manhattan, the center of the galaxy (according to those who live in Manhattan). They have two daughters and five grandchildren all of whom live close by.
For vacations, Hank and Pat usually visit distant parts of the galaxy. Occasionally, they also time-travel.
Besides writing novels, Hank lectures on fiction writing, publishing and book marketing. He is most proud of his talk showing grammar school kids how to create a short story. He used these lectures to create an advanced ebook with embedded videos to coach the students on how to create characters, plots and setting. The target audience is 4th to 7th graders. The book’s title is Fiction Writing Workshop for Kids.
About the Book: Beginner’s Guide to Creating Genuine Characters
Creating a fictional character that gabs the reader’s attention is a difficult task
The Beginner’s Guide to Creating Genuine Characters makes the task much easier.
Filled with information and examples from books and movies, this Beginner’s Guide is targeted to writers who are just starting to write their first story.
A story, whether it be a short story, a novel or a screenplay, is about the characters and their journey from the beginning of the story to the climax.
Inexperienced fiction writers struggle with character development. To overcome their inexperience, they need guidance and examples and that is what this book is about: showing writers how to develop their characters. The ebook uses artificial intelligence to generate reports on what makes a character ‘great.’ It also uses AI to generate what makes specific characters from literature and movies ‘great.’
The combination of AI reports and an in-depth template filled with examples makes this book just what every new fiction writer needs.
Topics covered in the book include:
- Introduction: Great character reports.
- Physical description. Allow the reader to build a mental image of the character.
- Biography: The character’s background and how the character thinks and what she wants out of life.
- Mental attributes: For both protagonist, antagonist and other main characters.
- Character arc: A necessary story within the story.
- Dominant reader emotion: How the character relates to the readers.
- Flaws: Make the character human.
- Motivation: Why does the character care about solving the plot problem?
All of these topics contain research reports on its importance and what is needed to make your character genuine and great.
Click here for Book Trailer Reveal!
Title: Beginner’s Guide to Creating Genuine Characters
Author: Hank Quense
Release date: 9/15/24
Publisher: Strange Worlds Publishing
ISBN: 979-8-9891163-1-7
Cover designer/artist credit: Gary Tenuta
*GIVEAWAY DETAILS*
Ten (10) Winners will receive a digital copy of Beginner’s Guide To Creating Genuine Characters (Hank Quense) ~ International!
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