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The Emotional Craft of Fiction

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Emotional Craft of Fiction

By Donald Maass

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About the book

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...Show more

Satirical fiction and parodies
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Interior life

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ISBN

9781440348372

Publisher

F&W Publications Inc

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Emotional Craft of Fiction

Format

Paperback

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