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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 readers experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you.
Thats 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 storys 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 novelor they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.
Author: Donald Maass
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Published: 12/30/2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781440348372
Language: English
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