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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 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 o

The Emotional Craft of Fiction

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      Publisher F&W Publications Inc
      Published 1/30/2016 12:12:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781440348372
      978-1440348372
      ISBN-10 1440348375
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 o

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