Take your fiction to the next level!Maybe you’re a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you’ve already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel – one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller … the best-seller lists.
Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share – regardless of genre – then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.
You’ll learn to:
• establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place
• weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story
• create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page
• explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers
• sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish
• develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition
Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors – including novelist Anne Perry – Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You’ll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.
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Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass may be just what I needed at this point in my writing development. Strunk and White’s book was immensely useful long ago, but I’m long past the basic grammar and style advice they provide. Stephen King’s On Writing and Anne Lamont’s Bird by Bird were both good books, but were more morale-building than …
I’ve attended countless of Donald’s classes at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference every October.
They are always fabulous, and he actually uses exercises pulled from this and his many other writing craft books that will turn your ideas on their heads and make you approach your story from a completely fresh angle.
Donald’s techniques …
Hey, this book has some great advice in it. Problem is, I’ve read over 100 books on the craft of writing, and Donald Maass had nothing new to say. Might not be his fault. He may have written it first, but I read him last. Highly recommended if you’re interested in learning what characteristics a novel must have to reach the tipping point between …
Donald Maass offers excellent information to aspiring novelists in this must-have book. Full of realistic advice to help you build upon your characters and storyline. If you’re looking to take your craft to the next level read this book!