The Emotional Craft of Fiction : How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
by
Donald Maass
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1440348375
ISBN-13
9781440348372
Publisher
F&W Publications Inc
Imprint
Writer's Digest Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 30th, 2016
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
230 grams
Dimensions
42.80 x 17.60 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Writing & editing guides
Ksh 3,400.00
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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:
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
- 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
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