Description
| Product ID: | 9781582971827 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Writing the Breakout Novel |
| Subtitle: | Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client |
| Authors: | Author: Donald Maass |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Creative writing and creative writing guides, Creative writing & creative writing guides |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Take your fiction to the next level! Maybe you''re a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you''ve already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists. Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace. You''ll 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 Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You''ll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career. |
| Imprint Name: | Writer's Digest Books |
| Publisher Name: | F&W Publications Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-08-15 |
