Mason Carter

Psychology for Fiction Writers: A Practical Toolkit for Building Stronger Characters, Conflicts, and Plots (The Author's Toolkit Series) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What makes a character unforgettable? Why do some stories grip readers from the first pagewhile others fall flat? The answer lies in psychology.

Psychology for Fiction Writers is a comprehensive, accessible guide that helps storytellers understand how real human behavior shapes believable characters, powerful conflicts, and compelling plots. Whether you're writing novels, short stories, scripts, or narrative nonfiction, this book gives you the psychological tools to elevate every part of your storytelling craft.

What You'll Learn Inside

✔ Psychoanalytic Foundations Use Freud, Jung, Adler, and Object Relations Theory to build characters with depth, wounds, desires, and internal contradictions. ✔ Defense Mechanisms in Action Make your characters' choices richer, more realistic, and more emotionally charged. ✔ Behavioral Psychology Craft believable habits, fears, motivations, and change arcs using classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and modeling. ✔ Cognitive Psychology Harness memory, schemas, biases, attention, and decision-making to shape how characters thinkand how they make mistakes. ✔ Conflict and Plot Psychology Develop tension that emerges organically from personality, trauma, and internal struggle. ✔ Character Arcs and Growth Show believable transformation using principles from behavioral modification, cognitive dissonance, habit change, problem-solving, and more. ✔ 100+ Writing Prompts Spark new scenes, conflicts, and character moments inspired by real psychological theory.

Why This Book Is Different

Most writing guides tell you what to do. This one shows you why people behave the way they doand how to use that knowledge to write fiction that feels vivid, authentic, and emotionally alive.

You'll explore: • how childhood shapes adult motivations • how trauma influences decision-making • why characters sabotage themselves • how relationships mirror hidden internal conflict • the psychological roots of villainy, heroism, and transformation

And every chapter ends with practical prompts, examples, and applications directly for fiction writers.

Perfect For:

• Novelists
• Screenwriters and TV writers
• Short story writers
• RPG/game narrative writers
• Anyone who wants to write characters that feel REAL

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced writer, this toolkit helps you craft deeper characters, richer emotional stakes, and stories that stay with readers long after they turn the final page.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mason Carter
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232712594
• Artikelnr.: 75962053

Autorenporträt

Mason Carter (pen name of Mushahid Syed) is a poet, fiction writer, translator, and professor at Shah Abdul Latif University, Ghotki Campus, where he has taught since 2018. His work explores themes of social justice, autonomy, and community, blending lyricism with philosophy and political imagination. A lifelong bookworm, he began writing poetry and fiction in 2010 and draws inspiration from Gothic and radical voices such as Poe, Blake, Gibran, and Bookchin. When not teaching or writing, he enjoys reading, Netflix, and study circles with friends. He lives in Pakistan and finds his greatest inspiration in his daughter, Elsa.