Fiction is Folks

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Fiction is Folks: How to Create Unforgettable Characters is a humorous writing guide by the young adult author Robert Newton Peck that focuses on the art of creating fictional characters.

[edit] Summary

It includes exercises to:

• Build characters from people you know
• Use yourself as a character
• Write about people around you as they actually are
• Research your characters and how to incorporate the results in your writing
• Cure the "narrative drag"
• Find buzz words and use them to your best advantage
• Turn pet-peeves into a salable idea
• Use trouble to supercharge your story

In hardcover, the book is 182 pages long. ISBN: 0-89879-113-8 Date of Publication: 1983

[edit] References

• The author regularly uses examples from his own books including Soup and A Day No Pigs Would Die.

• The book was promoted by author Sloan Wilson who wrote The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (later made into a film with Gregory Peck) and A Summer Place.