“I love this book. It’s not a guide you use daily to write. Instead, it is a book you go to when­ever you want to delve deep into your character’s psy­che. The sce­nar­ios help you real­ize how your char­ac­ter would react in par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tions and what makes them tick.” – Library­Thing

“Every writer wants to get inside their character’s head, but a book that actu­ally allows you to peep inside their mind? What Would Your Char­ac­ter Do? is a book that branches off to cover the char­ac­ter ele­ment of a story.

“The first thing addressed in the book is the his­tory of psy­chol­o­gists. Although it is an unusual topic, Eric Maisel goes on to expand to claim that writ­ers are the real psy­chol­o­gists of the world. He explains that depres­sion was a mys­tery to early psy­chol­o­gists, but writ­ers knew that the per­son was suf­fer­ing from a dif­fer­ent disorder.

“The book is a col­lec­tion of per­son­al­ity quizzes for ana­lyz­ing char­ac­ters. It stresses the impor­tance of know­ing one’s char­ac­ters and even pro­vides a study guide for the reader. It illus­trates how to get the most from the book with the use of a char­ac­ter notebook.

“The quizzes them­selves are enter­tain­ing. The quizzes are sev­eral com­mon sit­u­a­tions from going to a fam­ily reunion to being placed in a sud­den lead­er­ship role. There are sev­eral ques­tions for each sce­nario and with them are per­son­al­ity types.

“What Would Your Char­ac­ter Do? is an inter­est­ing book to use to spend time with your char­ac­ters. You can dis­cover what would moti­vate your char­ac­ter to lie or how they would deal with the death of a par­ent. So ask your­self — just how well do you know your char­ac­ters?” – epinions.com

 

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