title: Character Arcs: Founding, forming and finishing your character's internal journey (Writing Craft) (Volume 1)
author:  Jordan McCollum 
description: "Amid the vast number of books that focus on the <i>what</i> and <i>why</i> of character arcs, Jordan McCollum has created a refreshing guide that demystifies the <i>how</i>. Any writer interested in learning more about how to create a realistic character arc and smoothly add it to their story will benefit greatly from this book." --Becca Puglisi, author of <i>The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression</i> </em>
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   _Crack Down_
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  For my mother,  
  with love and thanks
  
  **Table of Contents**
  
   _Chapter 1_
  
   _Chapter 2_
  
   _Chapter 3_
  
   _Chapter 4_
  
   _Chapter 5_
  
   _Chapter 6_
  
   _Chapter 7_
  
   _Chapter 8_
  
   _Chapter 9_
  
   _Chapter 10_
  
   _Chapter 11_
  
   _Chapter 12_
  
   _Chapter 13_
  
   _Chapter 14_
  
   _Chapter 15_
  
   _Chapter 16_
  
   _Chapter 17_
  
   _Chapter 18_
  
   _Chapter 19_
  
   _Chapter 20_
  
   _Chapter 21_
  
   _Chapter 22_
  
   _Chapter 23_
  
   _Chapter 24_
  
   _Chapter 25_
  
   _Epilogue_
  
   _Acknowledgements_
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _By the Same Author_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _About the Publisher_
  
  **_1_**
  
  If slugs could smile, they’d have no trouble finding jobs as car salesmen.
  Darryl Day proved that. Oozing false sincerity as shiny as a slime trail, he’d
  followed us round the showroom. From the start, he’d made it clear that in his
  book, Richard was the one who counted. I was just the bimbo wife. Now Darryl
  sat, separated from the pair of us by a plastic desk, grinning maniacally