Whether you're a first-time novelist seeking practical guidance or an experienced author with a work stuck in mid-list limbo, Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass is a valuable resource for taking your prose to the next level. This manual, useful for both professional writers and aspiring authors, delves into the elements shared by breakout novels across genres and provides writing techniques to make your own books stand out in a crowded marketplace.
In this manual, you will 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
Donald Maass illustrates these techniques using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors, including novelist Anne Perry. This manual will help you capture the attention of an agent, generate publisher interest, and lay the foundation for a promising writing career.
Author: Maass, Donald Publisher: Writers Digest Books Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: Writing the Breakout Novel Pages: 00256 (Unencrypted ) / 00256 (Encrypted ) / 00256 (Encrypted ) On Sale: 2002-08-01 SKU-13/ISBN: 9781582971827 Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Composition & Creative Writing
