Characters In Conflict Author:Bill Clark CHARACTERS IN CONFLICT and its accompanying book, A WRITERS SKETCHBOOK, are guidebooks that provides writers with quick idea-tools to build believable story characters, dialogue and behaviors. Billions of people occupy the world today. All are unique in appearance, background and thoughts. Each possess points of view based on experienc... more »e, education and how the individual is wired internally. These broad differences give writers infinite possibilities for story and character. The character s environment will then shape the dialogue. Focus of this book is on human behavior with emphasis on areas of controversy. Different view points. That s what conflict is all about. In this book writers are encouraged to exaggerate human differences to extremes on a sliding scale. Bring the behavior toward the negative or positive into caricature form. Then back the behavior away as needed for an illusion of reality. Sorry to say, the neutral position on the personality scale will never bring readers to midnight oil burning. Characters and action on the edge is what bring zing to story. This book will assist writers find that zing and create stories as illusional slices of life. A WRITERS SKETCHBOOK provides pages for story blocking thoughts to capture those special moments while fresh with fingertip ideas.« less