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

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The Emotional Craft of Fiction HOW TO WRITE THE STORY BENEATH THE SURFACE By Donald Maass

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ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL CRAFT OF FICTION​

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
• 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.
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Donald Maass, founder of Donald Maass Literary Agency has written several books but this is my favorite. In this one he shares how writers can take the reader on an emotional journey. I've read a lot of books about writing fiction and I have quite the library of them. But I return to this book time and time again, especially being a "pantser" who writes character-driven stories. In my opinion, connecting with feelings and emotions is key to storytelling.
~~ Deb Bailey
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