Writing the Breakout Novel
by Donald Maass
2020-05-13 21:14:29
Writing the Breakout Novel
by Donald Maass
2020-05-13 21:14:29
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 Donal...
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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 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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