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The Emotional Craft of Fiction - by Donald Maass (Paperback)

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  • The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readers Writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.
  • Author(s): Donald Maass
  • 224 Pages
  • Language Arts & Disciplines, Writing

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The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readers

Writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.

Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You'll learn:

- emotional modes of writing
- beyond showing versus telling
- your story's emotional world
- moral stakes
- connecting the inner and outer journeys
- plot as emotional opportunities
- invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language
- cascading change
- story as emotional mirror
- positive spirit and magnanimous writing
- the hidden current that makes stories move

Readers can simply read a novel...or they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Sub-Genre: Writing
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Theme: Composition
Format: Paperback
Author: Donald Maass
Language: English
Street Date: December 30, 2016
TCIN: 51411237
UPC: 9781440348372
Item Number (DPCI): 248-20-5789
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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