The Emotional Craft of Fiction, Donald Maass
The Emotional Craft of Fiction, Donald Maass
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The Emotional Craft of Fiction
How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

Author: Donald Maass

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2020


Synopsis

Engage Your Readers with Emotion

While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you.

That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. Topics covered include:

● Emotional modes of writing

● Beyond showing versus telling

● Connecting the inner and outer journeys and much more

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

About Donald Maass

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Reviews

Goodreads review by K.M. on September 29, 2019

I wish I'd written this book myself if only so I could share every single chapter with my own readers. Because it's brilliant. More than just on-point writing instruction, this is an inspirational challenge calling all writers to be their best selves and write stories that, in turn, inspire and chal......more

Goodreads review by Jon on December 17, 2017

Three and a half stars. I got dozens of notes out of it, as usual, but this one didn't do it for me. Maybe the weakest of his that I've read. It irked me how dogmatic he was about what people want out of reading fiction, as part of the stated belief that pretty much every human being has an essential......more

Goodreads review by Vaughn on February 05, 2017

One of the things I love about Donald Maass’s craft books is that he keeps taking it up a notch, keeps pushing boundaries. Which in turn continues to challenge his pupils. Although I firmly believe this book will help any writer who reads it, I feel like it found its way to my hands at the perfect p......more

Goodreads review by Liz on August 01, 2017

There is so much in this short book. It is a book to revise a manuscript with, to take you through those scenes that are necessary but aren't working, to force you deeper in the story...to go beyond your own fear as a writer. I need to reread and reread it repeatedly.......more

Goodreads review by Renee on September 18, 2022

Such a helpful book! Great suggestions. Now I just have to put them into practice.......more