Readers connect to characters with depth, ones who have experienced life's ups and downs. To deliver key players that are both realistic and compelling, writers must know them intimately-not only who they are in the present story, but also what made them that way. Of all the formative experiences in a character's past, none are more destructive than emotional wounds. The afters...(展开全部)

安琪拉·阿卡曼 （ Angela Ackerman） 美国作家、写作教练、演讲家，SCBWI（儿童书作家和插画家协会）会员，主要创作以“年轻人的烦恼”为题材的小说。现在和丈夫、两个孩子、爱犬和宠物鱼一起生活在毗邻落基山脉的加拿大阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里。 贝卡·帕格利希 （Becca Puglisi） 美国作家、写作教练、演讲家，SCBWI会员，主要创作面向青年读者的奇幻小说与历史虚构作品，同时也为杂志撰稿。生活在阳光灿烂的佛罗里达南部，平时喜欢看电影、喝含咖啡因的饮料。现在和丈夫及两个孩子生活在一起。

It’s a writer’s job to create compelling characters who can withstand life’s fallout without giving up. But building authentic, memorable heroes is no easy task. To forge realistic characters, we must hobble them with flaws that set them back while giving them positive attributes to help them achieve their goals. So how do writers choose the right blend of strengths for their c...(展开全部)

Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal of all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every location has the potential to become a conduit for conveying emotion, characterizing t...(展开全部)

Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer’s Diet is for you! It’s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis. Instead, she offers an easy-to-follow set of writing principles: use active verbs wh...(展开全部)

This book corrects common media misconceptions about the nature of the criminal psyche in order to help writers create more credible and convincing characters. The Criminal Mind examines the fundamentals of psychology and law, theories of criminality, and character disorders that can lead to criminal behavior. Writers will learn how criminals think and how forensic psycholog...(展开全部)

Do your characters smile, frown, sign, or shiver too much? Are their hearts always racing, their breath rushing, or worse, they stand there, doing nothing at all? It’s okay, you aren’t alone. Writing powerful, fresh emotional description can be a challenge…or rather it used to be before The Emotion Thesaurus came along. This bestselling guide helps you break free from tired des...(展开全部)

This book, by a psychologist with two decades of investment in writers, depicts his programs for instilling patience, pacing, constancy, and resilience in writing. He shows how writers proceed to comfort and fluency by detailing strategies, rules, and turning points for a diversity of writers--professional, professorial, and otherwise. The result is a thorough-going discussion ...(展开全部)

This book offers an evidence based guide for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and other clinicians working with trauma survivors in various settings. It provides easily digestible, up-to-date information on the basic principles of traumatic stress research and practice, including psychological and sociological theories as well as epidemiological, psychopa...(展开全部)

君の過去も秘密も、全て愛そう　互いを愛し合いながらも生き別れてしまった双子の至と一。だが至は入学した高校で、クラスメイトの「リョータ」と恋に落ちる。嫉妬と失望に駆られる一だが、その数ヵ月後、至は交通事故で帰らぬ人となってしまう。失意の一に渡されたのは、至が事故当日に投函する筈の手紙だった。届かぬ手紙に記されたリョータとの悲しい恋の真実、復讐を誓う一が出会った謎の「先生」、様々な人間の運命が交差する、衝撃のドラマがついに完結。一と先生のその後を綴った描き下ろしも含めた、松本ケンタロウ渾身のデビュー作！