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| Introduction: Who Are These People, and Who Needs Them? | |
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| Creating Strong and Believable Characters: The Externals | |
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| Beauty and/or the Beast: Choosing Descriptive Details | |
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| What's in a Name? Using Monikers to Convey Character | |
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| Zip Code, Please: The Role of Setting in Creating Character | |
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| What Did You Say You Do? Using the World of Work to Enhance Characterization | |
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| Say What? Characterizing Through Dialogue | |
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| The Artful Deception: Making Dialogue Read Naturally (Even Though It's Not Natural) | |
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| When Less is More: Pruning Character Descriptors to a Manageable Number | |
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| Don't I Know You? Basing Characters on Real People | |
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| Creating Strong and Believable Characters: The Internals | |
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| She's Got an Attitude: Using Personal Thoughts to Characterize | |
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| Lost in Thought: Making Clear What, When and How Your Character Is Thinking | |
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| The Pygmalion Trap: How to Not Let Your Assumptions Torpedo Characterization | |
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| Airy Dreams and Solid News: How to Use Dreams and Newscasts to Enhance Characterization | |
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| The Bad Guys: How to Make Your Villains As Readable As Your Heroes | |
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| Do I Want to Know You? How to Create an Unsympathetic Protagonist Without Driving Your Readers Away | |
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| The Intelligence Dossier: A Wrap-Up System for Investigating Your Character | |
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| Character and Plot | |
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| The Yellow Brick Road: How to Start Anywhere and Arrive at Plot | |
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| Fight! Fight! Fight! When Conflict Leads to Violence | |
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| Whose Story Is It, Anyway? How Point of View Begins With Character and Leads to Plot | |
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| Also Featuring ... Secondary Characters and Plot Construction | |
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| The Characters, They Are A-Changing: How to Make Character Change a Strong Element of Plot | |
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| Seeing Is Believing: A Concrete Example of How Character, Change and Plot Intertwine | |
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| "... But It Really Happened!" Basing Plots on Real-Life Events | |
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| Archetypal Attractions: Using Rich Old Plots in Rich New Ways | |
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| I See a Pattern Emerging: The Connections Among Characters, Plot and Theme | |
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| The Characters and the Writer | |
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| Index | |