The Psychology Workbook for Writers, Darian Smith
The Psychology Workbook for Writers, Darian Smith
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The Psychology Workbook for Writers
Tools For Creating Realistic Characters and Conflict In Fiction

Author: Darian Smith

Narrator: Darian Smith

Unabridged: 1 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2022

Synopsis

Writers know that their characters and stories should be multi-layered and believable. Now here’s a simple workbook that uses the same knowledge that gives therapists insight into human behaviour to create fiction that hits the mark. Each chapter outlines an aspect of psychological theory as it can be used for writing and provides two worksheets to translate it into action – one to develop characters, one to develop the story.Darian Smith is a prize winning fiction writer with a degree in psychology, and is a member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors. He combines these two sides of his background to provide simple, easy to follow tools that make use of established psychological theory to help writers develop fully rounded, interesting, realistic characters and inject conflict into their stories.Give your writing the benefit of over a decade of training and experience, and discover how to have readers wanting more.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Timothy on September 30, 2018

My initial impression after completing a first read is that if I take the time to develop the characters according to the psychology theories present in the book, then I will definitely come to the point of writing with much stronger characters. I am on the brink of rewriting the first draft of my f......more

Goodreads review by Karla on February 14, 2022

Buenísimo para quienes disfrutan (y quieren) crear personajes creíbles, completos y llenos de matices. El autor nos muestra con ejemplos la manera en que nosotros podemos aplicar los consejos para crear personajes más creíbles y reales. Si te gusta la psicología de la personalidad y disfrutas creand......more

Goodreads review by Shelly on June 16, 2022

Mostly very helpful. Some of this is just articulating what I already know from just reading a lot and living around people, but it's good to see the words for things we might intuitively know through age and experience. Definitely got me thinking more in-depth about my own characters and the ones i......more

Goodreads review by Gray on January 23, 2021

An okay book. It is extremely short (in my opinion), and I wish there were 100 more pages going over more complicated aspects of characterization. The psychology in this book can only be applied to certain story arcs/types, so the book is limited in how it can help you. The 80 pages we get can be he......more

Goodreads review by Hunter on February 27, 2016

Good reference to dip into for character development......more

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