Writing Interiority: Crafting Irresistible Characters: Global Edition

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Writing Interiority: Crafting Irresistible Characters is not just another writing guide—it’s an invitation to transform your approach to character creation and storytelling. Its unique focus on interiority, combined with practical insights from a former literary agent and freelance editor, makes it an indispensable resource for writers at any stage of their career.

Master Interiority: Delve into the art of interiority, the heartbeat of compelling fiction and memoir writing, ensuring your characters resonate deeply with readers across four levels of depth. Explore your protagonist’s thoughts, feelings, reactions and interpretations, expectations, and inner struggles to create a rich, immersive experience.

Create Multidimensional Characters: Uncover the essentials of crafting a character’s backstory, objective, need, internal tension, worldview, and growth arc to explore profound themes and add human resonance to your plot.

Enrich Your Story: Gain invaluable advice on integrating secondary characters, turning points, stakes, and world-building.

Raise Your Voice: Explore how writing voice intertwines with interiority so that your personal style stands out on crowded shelves.

Engagement and Connection: Learn the secrets to making readers care deeply about your characters through groundbreaking original analysis of published and sample novels and memoirs.

Whether you’re an aspiring writer, an established author, or somewhere in between, this guide will empower you to create characters who live and breathe on the page, fostering an unbreakable bond with your audience. If you're ready to transform your creative writing, deepen your characterizations, and perhaps change your writing skill set forever, explore the depths of what’s possible with Writing Interiority: Crafting Irresistible Characters today.

Writing Interiority: Crafting Irresistible Characters is not just another writing guide—it’s an invitation to transform your approach to character creation and storytelling. Its unique focus on interiority, combined with practical insights from a former literary agent and freelance editor, makes ...

About the author

Former literary agent Mary Kole founded Mary Kole Editorial in 2013 and provides consulting and developmental editing services to writers of all categories and genres. She founded Good Story Company in 2019 with the aim of creating valuable content-like the Good Story Podcast, YouTube channel, and Good Story Learning classes and resources-for writers of all categories and ability levels. Her Story Mastermind small group workshop intensives help writers level up their craft, and she offers done-for-you writing and ghostwriting at Manuscript Studio and marketing services with Good Story Marketing. She also develops unique and commercial intellectual property for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers with Upswell Media and Bittersweet Books (website forthcoming).¿¿Mary has appeared at regional, national, and international SCBWI conferences, as well as independent conferences including Writer's Digest, Penn Writers, Writer's League of Texas, San Francisco Writers Conference, WIFYR, Writing Day, and dozens of others. She has guest lectured at Harvard, the Ringling College of Art and Design, the Highlights Foundation, and the Loft, and her classes can be found online at Writing Mastery Academy, Writing Blueprints, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning.She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and has worked at Chronicle Books, the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and Movable Type Management. She started blogging at Kidlit.com in 2009. Her book, Writing Irresistible Kidlit, a writing reference guide for middle grade and young adult writers, is available from Writer's Digest Books/Penguin Random House. She's also the author of Successful Query Letters, Writing Irresistible Picture Books, and How to Write a Book Now from Good Story Publishing.
Former literary agent Mary Kole founded Mary Kole Editorial in 2013 and provides consulting and developmental editing services to writers of all categories and genres. She founded Good Story Company in 2019 with the aim of creating valuable content-like the Good Story Podcast, YouTube channel, an...

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