Character Motto: A Writer's Tool for Creating 3-D Characters & Enhancing Plot, Setting & Conflict

By Susan Gable

It slices, it dices, it's a handy-dandy Swiss Army knife for your writer's toolbox!

If you're searching for a way to make your characters deeper, more engaging, and more multidimensional, search no more. Want to know how to move your plot forward, or make the setting of your story more relevant and richer? Then you need Character Motto.

In this fun, engaging book, award-winning author Susan Gable provides a simple, easy-to-follow explanation of how discovering and applying your characters' personal mottos (the core philosophy by which they live their lives) can help you create more vibrant characters and settings, figure out major plot points, and enhance the conflict in your books.

It's a must-have tool for every writer's toolbox.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Gable
• Release date: Mar 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386655282

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Character Motto

A Writer's Tool for Creating 3-D Characters & Enhancing Plot, Setting & Conflict

By

Susan Gable

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First Electronic Printing 2013

Cover by Susan Guadagno

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Disclaimer

Chapter One - What is Character Motto?

Chapter Two - Backstory - Where Did This Motto Come From?

Chapter Three - SHOWing Character Motto through Setting Details & Action/Behavior

Chapter Four - Conflict

Chapter Five - Theme & Motto

Chapter Six - Plot, Greatest Fears & Character Growth

Chapter Seven- Putting the Pieces Together

The Never-Ending List of Mottos

Glossary

About the Author

Introduction

It slices, it dices...it’s a Swiss Army knife to tuck into your writer’s toolbox along with all those other cool tidbits you’ve gleaned from various writers along the way!

Character motto can:

Help you know your characters on a deep level.

Reveal character backstory.

Guide you into strengthening your conflict.

Help you choose significant setting details.

Know how your character will react in a given situation.

Assist you in plotting.

I talk a lot about my own novels here. It's not because I intend this book to be a long marketing tool for my own work. (Although, if you find yourself wanting to grab a copy based on what you read here, I'm not about to stop you. Please and thank you.)

It's because I am most familiar with my own work. I know what makes my characters tick. I've ripped my own work apart, analyzing it, figuring out how I do what I do...so I can do it again. And so I can hopefully help other writers use a few tricks that work for me.

Also, because I am a geek of the utmost magnitude, you’ll find references to Star Wars and other things Geekdom.

I’ve written this book in casual form. I wanted to talk TO you, not at you. Grammar has gotten a little mangled, and not because I don't know better. I sometimes start sentences with conjunctions and I use fragments, and I will bounce around a little bit on you.

Consider yourself seated in the row of your choice at the workshop I give on this very subject.

I hope you find it helpful.

Disclaimer

Writing is subjective! Craft is subjective.

Heck, when you get right down to it, even parts of