Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. Interviews with today’s top writers complete this essential volume.

Critically-acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates discusses how a writer develops realistic characters, using examples from her novel “The Gravedigger’s Daughter.”

Rus­sell Ce­lyn Jones, author, Pro­fes­sor of Cre­ative Writ­ing and Di­rec­tor of the MA Pro­gramme at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don’s Birk­beck Col­lege advises writers on developing characters in your writing. Topics include: “building” a character, whether or not some characters write themselves, making characters believable, having too many or too few characters, basing characters on people you know, basing characters on yourself.